(A) No employee, while infected with a disease in a communicable form that can be transmitted by foods, or who is a carrier of organisms that cause such a disease, or while afflicted with a boil, an infected wound, or an acute respiratory infection, shall work in a bed and breakfast establishment, retail food establishment, seasonal retail food establishment, mobile retail food establishment, or temporary retail food establishment in any capacity in which there is a likelihood of such person contaminating food, or food-contact surfaces, with pathogenic organisms, or transmitting disease to other persons. If the person in charge of any bed and breakfast establishment, retail food establishment, seasonal retail food establishment, mobile retail food establishment, or temporary retail food establishment has reason to believe that any employee has contracted any disease which can be transmitted by food, he or she shall notify the County Health Department immediately.
(B) When the Health Department has reason to believe there exists a possibility of transmission of infection from any bed and breakfast establishment employee, retail food establishment employee, seasonal retail food establishment employee, mobile retail food establishment employee, or temporary retail food establishment employee, the County Health Department is authorized to require any, or all, of the following measures:
(1) The immediate exclusion of the employee from all bed and breakfast establishments, retail food establishments, seasonal retail food establishments, mobile retail food establishments, and temporary retail food establishments;
(2) The immediate closing of the bed and breakfast establishment, retail food establishment, seasonal retail food establishments, mobile retail food establishment, or temporary retail food establishment concerned until no further danger of disease outbreak exists in the opinion of the County Health Department; and/or
(3) Adequate medical examination of the employee, and of his or her associates, with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated, at no cost to the County Health Department.
(Ord. 2019-09, passed 11-4-2019) Penalty, see § 111.99