(a) The operator of a food establishment
shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that each employee with an
infected wound or a disease communicable by food is not working in a food
establishment in any capacity that might contaminate food or a food-contact
surface.
(b) The operator of a food
establishment shall ensure that
(1) each
applicant to whom a conditional offer of employment is made and each employee
reports each of the following conditions to the operator, including the date of
onset, as it relates to diseases that are transmissible through food, if the
employee or applicant has, or is diagnosed with, that condition:
(A) vomiting;
(B) diarrhea;
(C) jaundice;
(D) sore throat with fever;
(E) a lesion containing pus, such as a boil
or infected wound, that is opening and draining and is
(i) on the hands or wrists, unless an
impermeable cover such as a finger cot or stall, protects the lesion and a
single-use glove is worn over the impermeable cover;
(ii) on exposed portions of the arms, unless
the lesion is protected by an impermeable cover; or
(iii) on other parts of the body, unless the
lesion is covered by a dry, durable, tight-fitting bandage;
(F)
Salmonella
Typhi, within the previous three months, without the individual having
received antibiotic therapy;
(G)
Shigellaspp.;
(H)
Enterohemorrhagic or Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia
coli;
(I) hepatitis A
virus;
(J) Norovirus;
(2) an employee or applicant who
is experiencing a symptom of a disease transmissible by food as described in
(1)(A) - (E) of this subsection is either excluded or restricted as listed in
Table E of this section; and
TABLE E
EXCLUSION OR RESTRICTION REQUIREMENTS FOR SYMPTOMATIC
EMPLOYEES OR APPLICANTS
Symptom Exclusion or Restriction Removing
Exclusion
or
Restriction *Department
of
Environmental
Conservation
Approval
Needed to
Work? Establishments
Serving
Highly
Susceptible
Population All
Other
Establishments Vomiting Exclude Exclude When the
excluded
employee
has been
asymptomatic
for at least
24 hours. No Diarrhea Exclude Exclude When the
excluded
employee
has been
asymptomatic
for at least
24 hours. NoJaundice Exclude if the
onset occurred
within the last
seven days Exclude if the
onset occurred
within the last
seven daysWhen approval
is obtained
from the
Department
of Health. Yes, unless
medical
documentation
is provided to
the operator.Sore Throat
with Fever Exclude Restrict When the
employee
provides
written
medical
documentation
to the
operator. No Lesion
Containing
Pus Restrict Restrict When the
infected
wound or
boil is
properly
covered. No * An exclusion or restriction may be removed for
any symptom if the excluded or restricted employee provides medical
documentation to the operator that the condition is from a non-infectious
condition and that the risk of transmitting a pathogenic microorganism is
minimal.
(3) in addition to
the requirements of (a) of this section, the operator contacts the department,
verbally or electronically, within 24 hours after being notified that an
employee or applicant has been diagnosed by a health practitioner as having a
disease as described in (1)(F) - (J) of this subsection or is jaundiced; each
notification must provide the date, name of the diagnosed disease, and the name
and contact information of the food establishment reporting the diagnosed
disease.
(c) In this
section, "restrict" or "restriction" means to limit the activities of an
employee so that there is no risk of transmitting a disease that is
transmissible through food and the employee does not work with exposed food,
clean food-contact surfaces, linens, or unwrapped single-service of single-use
articles.
Notes
18 AAC 31.300
Eff. 5/18/97, Register
142; readopt 12/19/99, Register 152; am 6/28/2001, Register 158; am 12/28/2006,
Register 180
Effective 12/19/99, Register 152, the Department of
Environmental Conservation readopted
18 AAC 31.300, without change, to
affirm the validity of that section following statutory amendments made in ch.
72, SLA 1998. Chapter 72, SLA 1998 relocated department authority to adopt
regulations in 18 AAC 31 from AS 03.05 to AS 17.20.
Operators may contact the department by calling any
department office location or by calling (907) 269-7501 or, outside the
Municipality of Anchorage, 87-SAFEFOOD ((877) 233-3663), or by facsimile: (907)
269-7510.
Authority:AS
17.20.005
AS 17.20.020
AS 17.20.070
AS 17.20.072
AS 17.20.180
AS 17.20.200
AS 17.20.290
AS
44.46.020
