Section 25-A4500. INVESTIGATION AND CONTROL - OBTAINING INFORMATION, PERSONAL HISTORY OF ILLNESS, MEDICAL EXAMINATION, AND SPECIMEN ANALYSIS

 

4500.1The Department shall, when it has probable cause to believe that a food employee or conditional employee has transmitted a disease; may be infected with a disease in a communicable form that is transmissible through food; may be carrier of an infectious agent that causes a disease that is transmissible through food; or is affected with a boil, an infected wound, or acute respiratory infection: 

 

(a)Secure a confidential medical history of the food employee or conditional  employee suspected of transmitting disease or making other investigations  as deemed appropriate; and

 

(b)Require appropriate medical examinations, including collection of  specimens for laboratory analysis, of a suspected food employee or  conditional employee.

 

authority

Sections 4 and 10 of An Act Relating to the adulteration of foods and drugs in the District of Columbia, approved February 17, 1898 (30 Stat. 246; D.C. Official Code §§ 48-104 and 48-110 (2009 Repl.)); Section 7 of An Act Making Appropriations to provide for the expenses for the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, and for other purposes (32 Stat.627; D.C. Official Code § 47-2834(a)(1), (a)(2), and (b) (2005 Repl.)); and Mayor’s Order 98-139, dated August 20, 1998, and Mayor’s Order 2002-103, dated June 18, 2002.

source

Final Rulemaking published at 50 DCR 4394 (June 6, 2003), incorporating by reference the text of Proposed Rulemaking published at 49 DCR 6184, 6359 (July 5, 2002); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 59 DCR 13690 (November 30, 2012).