5701. (a) The State Department of Public Health may make sanitary surveys of mollusk-growing areas or may use sanitary surveys of mollusk-growing areas made by qualified state or county agencies, and based on that information may classify those areas for purposes of harvesting and moving mollusks that are to be purified for human consumption in accordance with Section 5700.(b) The State Department of Public Health shall adopt rules and regulations necessary to implement this section.(Amended by Stats. 2023, Ch. 132, Sec. 112. (AB 1760) Effective January 1, 2024.)
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