Notification of Disease

PURPOSE: This rule provides regulations for the notification of disease to the state authority. (1) No person with any disease in a communicable form or who is a carrier of a communicable disease shall work at any dairy farm or milk plant in any capacity which brings him/her into contact with the production, handling, storage, or transportation of milk, milk products, containers, or equipment; and no dairy farm or milk plant 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 a communicable disease. Any producer or distributor of milk or milk products upon whose dairy farm, or in whose milk plant, any communicable disease occurs, or who suspects that any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form, or has become a carrier of a communicable disease shall notify the state authority immediately. AUTHORITY: section 196.939, RSMo 2000.* Original rule filed June 20, 1973, effective June 30, 1973. Amended: Filed July 24, 2012, effective Jan. 30, 2013. *Original authority: 196.939, RSMo 1972, amended 1993, 1994, 1995.