# COMAR Title 10 — Maryland Department of Health

## Subtitle 15 — Food

### Chapter 02 — Crab Meat

#### Regulation .13 Unit Processing Operations — Storage.

*COMAR 10.15.02.13*

The person-in-charge shall ensure that:

A. After being picked and packed in ice, blast chilled, or otherwise cooled in a sanitary and effective way, fresh crab meat is kept in ice or in an ambient air temperature of 40°F or less;

B. Except when pasteurized within 2.5 hours of weigh-up in the packing room, packed crab meat for pasteurization is kept in ice or in an ambient air temperature of 40°F or below until pasteurization;

C. Pasteurized crab meat in hermetically sealed containers is kept in an ambient air temperature of 38°F or below;

D. Reduced oxygen packaged non-pasteurized crab meat is kept frozen; and

E. Crab meat is protected from contamination during storage.