The person in charge may remove an exclusion specified in subdivision 44:02:07:07(1) if the person in charge obtains approval from the regulatory authority or if the person excluded provides to the person in charge written medical documentation from a physician that specifies that the excluded person:

1. (1) May work in an unrestricted capacity in a food establishment, including an establishment that serves a highly susceptible population, because the person is free of:

   1. (a) The infectious agent of concern; or
   2. (b) Symptoms, if hepatitis A virus is the infectious agent of concern; or

2. (2) May only work in an unrestricted capacity in a food establishment that does not serve a highly susceptible population because the person:

   1. (a) Is free of the symptoms specified in subdivision 44:02:07:06(2)(a); and
   2. (b) Has a stool that yields a specimen culture that is negative for Shigella spp. or Escherichia coli O157:H7.

Source: 23 SDR 195, effective May 26, 1997.

General Authority: SDCL 34-1-17 , 34-18-22.

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-18-22 , 34-18-25.