Document Citation: 17 CCR 13652

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CALIFORNIA CODE OF REGULATIONS
TITLE 17. PUBLIC HEALTH
DIVISION 1. STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES
CHAPTER 5. SANITATION (ENVIRONMENTAL)
SUBCHAPTER 2. FOODS AND DRUGS
GROUP 1. RULES AND REGULATIONS
ARTICLE 10.3. REQUIREMENTS FOR

Date:
08/31/2009

Document:
§ 13652. Health Requirements

(a) All employees shall wear clean washable outer garments and shall keep their hands clean at all times while engaged in handling food, beverages, or utensils. All employees shall wash their hands and arms with soap or detergent and water before commencing work after using toilet facilities, before returning to work, and at such other times as are necessary to prevent contamination of food. Legible signs shall be posted in each toilet room directing attention to this requirement.

(b) When information as to the possibility of disease transmission is presented to the local health officer, he shall investigate conditions and take appropriate action. The health officer may, after investigation and for reasonable cause, require any or all of the following measures to be taken:

(1) The immediate exclusion of such employee or owner from the affected food establishment;

(2) The immediate closing of the establishment until in the opinion of the health officer no further danger exists;

(3) Medical examination of the owner and employees, with such laboratory examination as may be indicated, or should such examination or examinations be refused, the immediate exclusion of the refusing owner or employee from that or any other food establishment operation until a medical or laboratory examination shows that he is not affected with, or a carrier of, any disease in a communicable form.