Section 49.61. Health

(a) A person, 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, may not work in a shellfish facility in a capacity in which there is a likelihood of the person contaminating food or food-contact surfaces with pathogenic organisms or transmitting disease to other persons.

(b) An owner or manager who has reason to suspect that an employee has contracted a communicable disease shall immediately notify the Department. Pending appropriate action by the health officials, the employee shall be excluded from the facility.

The provisions of this § 49.61 adopted September 8, 1971, effective September 9, 1971, 1 Pa.B. 1828; amended December 14, 1990, effective December 15, 1990, 20 Pa.B. 6155; amended October 13, 2006, effective October 14, 2006, 36 Pa.B. 6285. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (217587) to (217588).

Notation

Authority

The provisions of this § 49.61 amended under the act of May 23, 1945 (P. L. 926, No. 369) (35 P. S. § § 655.1—655.13); and sections 1917-A and 1920-A of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § § 510-17 and 510-20).