DOH Says Seafood Ban Was “Unintentional”
Apparently yelling loud does get the Department of Health’s attention! A DOH spokesperson emailed Gothamist to claim the whole thing was a misunderstanding:
“The Health Department currently prohibits, and will continue to prohibit the sale of raw shellfish from a mobile food cart. However, the wording in the recent amendments to the Health Code effectively prohibit the sale of all seafood, raw and cooked, and that was unintentional. The Health Department intends to fix this, and will not enforce this amendment as written.“
That’s a huge relief! Now how about the smoothie vendors? Do they all need to outfit their carts with refrigerators, or was that unintentional as well?
Posted by Zach Brooks at 4:52 pm, December 16th, 2009 under Street Vendor Issues.
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Anyone know where the current rules are? I’m curious what they prohibit right now, since raw seafood is a lot broader than raw shellfish, and they can’t seem to make up their mind in their statements about what is being amended.