A. No person affected with any disease capable of being transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall work at any dairy farm or milk plant in any capacity which brings that person into contact with the equipment involved or employees engaged in the producing, handling, storing, or transporting of milk, milk products, containers, equipment, and utensils; and no milk producer or milk plant operator shall employ in any capacity any affected person, any person suspected of having any disease capable of being transmitted to others through the contamination of food, or of being a carrier of communicable diseases. Any milk producer, processor, or distributor who suspects that any employee has contracted any disease or has become a carrier of a disease capable of being transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall notify the Commissioner of Agriculture immediately.

B. When reasonable cause exists to suspect the possibility of transmission of infection from any person concerned with the handling of milk and milk products, the Commissioner is authorized to require any or all of the following measures:

1. The immediate exclusion of that person from milk handling;

2. The immediate exclusion of the milk supply concerned from distribution and use; and

3. Adequate medical examination and testing of the person, of his or her associates, and of the bodily discharges of both.

Added by Laws 1981, c. 43, § 11, emerg. eff. April 8, 1981. Amended by Laws 1994, c. 140, § 14, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Renumbered from Title 63, § 1-1301.11 by Laws 1994, c. 140, § 30, eff. Sept. 1, 1994. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 367, § 77, emerg. eff. June 6, 2000.