1. (a) The operator of a food establishment shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that each employee with an infected wound or a disease communicable by food is not working in a food establishment in any capacity that might contaminate food or a food-contact surface.

2. (b) The operator of a food establishment shall ensure that

   1. (1) each applicant to whom a conditional offer of employment is made and each employee reports each of the following conditions to the operator, including the date of onset, as it relates to diseases that are transmissible through food, if the employee or applicant has, or is diagnosed with, that condition:

      1. (A) vomiting;
      2. (B) diarrhea;
      3. (C) jaundice;
      4. (D) sore throat with fever;

      5. (E) a lesion containing pus, such as a boil or infected wound, that is opening and draining and is

         1. (i) on the hands or wrists, unless an impermeable cover such as a finger cot or stall, protects the lesion and a single-use glove is worn over the impermeable cover;
         2. (ii) on exposed portions of the arms, unless the lesion is protected by an impermeable cover; or
         3. (iii) on other parts of the body, unless the lesion is covered by a dry, durable, tight-fitting bandage;
      6. (F) Salmonella Typhi, within the previous three months, without the individual having received antibiotic therapy;
      7. (G) Shigella spp.;
      8. (H) Enterohemorrhagic or Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli;
      9. (I) hepatitis A virus;
      10. (J) Norovirus;
   2. (2) an employee or applicant who is experiencing a symptom of a disease transmissible by food as described in (1)(A) - (E) of this subsection is either excluded or restricted as listed in Table E of this section; and
   3. (3) in addition to the requirements of (a) of this section, the operator contacts the department, verbally or electronically, within 24 hours after being notified that an employee or applicant has been diagnosed by a health practitioner as having a disease as described in (1)(F) - (J) of this subsection or is jaundiced; each notification must provide the date, name of the diagnosed disease, and the name and contact information of the food establishment reporting the diagnosed disease.

   TABLE E

   EXCLUSION OR RESTRICTION REQUIREMENTS FOR SYMPTOMATIC

   EMPLOYEES OR APPLICANTS

   Symptom Exclusion or Restriction Removing

   Exclusion

   or

   Restriction *Department

   of

   Environmental

   Conservation

   Approval

   Needed to

   Work? Establishments

   Serving

   Highly

   Susceptible

   Population

   All

   Other

   Establishments VomitingExcludeExcludeWhen the

   excluded

   employee

   has been

   asymptomatic

   for at least

   24 hours.NoDiarrheaExcludeExcludeWhen the

   excluded

   employee

   has been

   asymptomatic

   for at least

   24 hours.NoJaundiceExclude if the

   onset occurred

   within the last

   seven daysExclude if the

   onset occurred

   within the last

   seven daysWhen approval

   is obtained

   from the

   Department

   of Health.Yes, unless

   medical

   documentation

   is provided to

   the operator.Sore Throat

   with FeverExcludeRestrictWhen the

   employee

   provides

   written

   medical

   documentation

   to the

   operator.NoLesion

   Containing

   PusRestrictRestrictWhen the

   infected

   wound or

   boil is

   properly

   covered.No* An exclusion or restriction may be removed for any symptom if the excluded or restricted employee provides medical documentation to the operator that the condition is from a non-infectious condition and that the risk of transmitting a pathogenic microorganism is minimal.

3. (c) In this section, "restrict" or "restriction" means to limit the activities of an employee so that there is no risk of transmitting a disease that is transmissible through food and the employee does not work with exposed food, clean food-contact surfaces, linens, or unwrapped single-service of single-use articles.

(Eff. 5/18/97, Register 142; readopt 12/19/99, Register 152; am 6/28/2001, Register 158; am 12/28/2006, Register 180)

Authority: AS 17.20.005, AS 17.20.072, AS 17.20.290, AS 17.20.020, AS 17.20.180, AS 44.46.020, AS 17.20.070, AS 17.20.200