Illness Believed to Be Due to Food Consumption

Every person who is a health care provider or who is in a supervisory position at a school, day care, hospital, institution, clinic, medical practice, laboratory, labor or other camp who has knowledge of the occurrence or suspected occurrence of case or cases of illness believed to have been due to the consumption of food, shall report the same immediately by telephone, by facsimile or other electronic means to the local board of health in the community in which the facility is located or the Department directly. If the Department is notified directly, it shall notify the local board of health within 24 hours.