Minnesota Administrative Rules

4626.0045 EXCLUSIONS AND RESTRICTIONS. 2-201.12

The person in charge shall:

A.

exclude a food employee from a food establishment if the food employee is ill with vomiting or diarrhea;_P1

B.

exclude a food employee from working with exposed food, clean equipment, and clean utensils in a food establishment if the food employee has an enteric bacterial, viral, or parasitic pathogen capable of being transmitted by food, such as norovirus, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., hepatitis A, or Shiga toxin-producing E. coli;_P1

C.

restrict an employee if the results of an epidemiological investigation by the commissioner of health under Minnesota Statutes, section 31.171, determines that a food employee or conditional employee presents a risk for transmission of foodborne disease;_P1and

D.

restrict an employee if the employee is infected with a skin lesion containing pus such as a boil or infected wound that is open or draining and not properly covered as specified in part 4626.0040, item A, subitem (1), unit (e)._P1

Statutory Authority:

MS s 31.101; 31.11; 144.05; 144.07; 144.08; 144.12; 157.011

History:

23 SR 519; 43 SR 295

Published Electronically:

January 2, 2019