Opinion ID: 1843476
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Heading: Duty of the Defendant

Text: A defendant's duty to conform his conduct to a specific standard may be express or implied, either statutorily or jurisprudentially. Faucheaux v. Terrebonne Consolidated Government, 615 So.2d 289, 292 (La.1993). In Louisiana, there is no statute which expressly addresses a commercial restaurant's duty to serve food free of injurious substances. [4] There is, nonetheless, no doubt that there is and should be such a duty. We determine that the duty is the following: A food provider, in selecting, preparing and cooking food, including the removal of injurious substances, has a duty to act as would a reasonably prudent man skilled in the culinary art in the selection and preparation of food. [5]