Section 760.400  General - Employee Health

a)         No 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, shall work in a retail food store 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.

b)         When the regulatory authority has reasonable cause to suspect possible disease transmission by an employee of a retail food store, it may secure a morbidity history of the suspected employee or make any other investigation as indicated and shall take appropriate action.  The regulatory authority may require any or all of the following measures:

1)         The immediate exclusion of the employee from employment in retail food stores;

2)         The immediate closing of the retail food store concerned until, in the opinion of the regulatory authority, no further danger of disease outbreak exists;

3)         Restriction of the employee's services to some area of the store where there would be no danger of transmitting disease;

4)         Adequate medical and laboratory examination of the employee and of other employees and of his and their body discharges.

(Source:  Amended at 7 Ill. Reg. 8532, effective July 8, 1983)