4500. INVESTIGATION AND CONTROL - OBTAINING INFORMATION, PERSONAL HISTORY OF ILLNESS, MEDICAL EXAMINATION, AND SPECIMEN ANALYSIS

4500 INVESTIGATION AND CONTROL ─ OBTAINING INFORMATION, PERSONAL HISTORY OF ILLNESS, MEDICAL EXAMINATION, AND SPECIMEN ANALYSIS 4500.1 The Department shall, when it has probable cause to believe that a food employee or conditional employee has transmitted a disease; may be infected with a disease in a communicable form that is transmissible through food; may be carrier of an infectious agent that causes a disease that is transmissible through food; or is affected with a boil, an infected wound, or acute respiratory infection: (a) Secure a confidential medical history of the food employee or conditional employee suspected of transmitting disease or making other investigations as deemed appropriate; and (b) Require appropriate medical examinations, including collection of specimens for laboratory analysis, of a suspected food employee or conditional employee. SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4394 (June 6, 2003); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).