Personnel Health

(1) Prohibition. No person affected with any disease in a communicable form, or while a carrier of such disease, shall work at any dairy farm in any capacity which brings him or her into contact with the production, handling, storage, or transportation of milk, milk products, containers, equipment and utensils; and no dairy farm operator shall employ in any such capacity any such person, or any person suspected of having any disease in a communicable form, or of being a carrier of such disease. Any producer or distributor of milk or milk products, upon whose dairy farm any communicable disease occurs, or who suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form, or has become a carrier of such disease, shall notify the Department immediately. (2) Procedure when Infection is Suspected. When reasonable cause exists to suspect the possibility of transmission of infection from any person concerned with the handling of milk and/or milk products, the Department is authorized to require any or all of the following measures: (a) The immediate exclusion of that person from milk handling. (b) The immediate exclusion of the milk supply concerned from distribution and use. (c) Adequate medical and bacteriological examination of the person, of his or her associates, and of his or her and their body discharges.