A.
No employee with any disease in a communicable form, or who is a carrier of such disease, shall work in any food establishment in any capacity which brings him in contact with the production, handling, storage or transportation of food or equipment used. No proprietor 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 such disease. Any employee who has a discharging or infected wound, sore or lesion on hands, arms or any portion of body, shall be excluded from those operations which bring him into contact with food, beverages, utensils or equipment used in food establishments.
B.
When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission of infection from any employee, the Department is authorized to require any or all of the following measures:
(1)
The immediate exclusion of employee from the food establishment.
(2)
The immediate closing of the food establishment concerned until, in the opinion of the Department, no further danger of disease outbreaks exists.
(3)
Restriction of the employee's services to some area of work where there would be no danger of transmitting disease.
(4)
Adequate medical examinations of the employee and of his associates, with such laboratory examinations as may be indicated.