Minnesota Administrative Rules

4626.0045 2-201.12 EXCLUSIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.*

The person in charge shall:

A.

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

B.

restrict 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 pathogen capable of being transmitted by food, including Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., or Escherichia coli O157:H7, until the Department of Health and the licensing regulatory authority have evaluated the potential for foodborne disease transmission; and

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 applicant presents a risk for transmission of foodborne disease.

Statutory Authority:

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

History:

23 SR 519

Published Electronically:

October 3, 2013