Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-7-411
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Persons affected with communicable disease
Official statutory text
A. No person affected with any disease capable of being
transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall work
at any dairy farm or milk plant in any capacity which brings that
person into contact with the equipment involved or employees engaged
in the producing, handling, storing, or transporting of milk, milk
products, containers, equipment, and utensils; and no milk producer
or milk plant operator shall employ in any capacity any affected
person, any person suspected of having any disease capable of being
transmitted to others through the contamination of food, or of being
a carrier of communicable diseases. Any milk producer, processor,
or distributor who suspects that any employee has contracted any
disease or has become a carrier of a disease capable of being
transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall notify
the Commissioner of Agriculture immediately.
B. When reasonable cause exists to suspect the possibility of
transmission of infection from any person concerned with the
handling of milk and milk products, the Commissioner is authorized
to require any or all of the following measures:
1. The immediate exclusion of that person from milk handling;
2. The immediate exclusion of the milk supply concerned from
distribution and use; and
3. Adequate medical examination and testing of the person, of
his or her associates, and of the bodily discharges of both.
transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall work
at any dairy farm or milk plant in any capacity which brings that
person into contact with the equipment involved or employees engaged
in the producing, handling, storing, or transporting of milk, milk
products, containers, equipment, and utensils; and no milk producer
or milk plant operator shall employ in any capacity any affected
person, any person suspected of having any disease capable of being
transmitted to others through the contamination of food, or of being
a carrier of communicable diseases. Any milk producer, processor,
or distributor who suspects that any employee has contracted any
disease or has become a carrier of a disease capable of being
transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall notify
the Commissioner of Agriculture immediately.
B. When reasonable cause exists to suspect the possibility of
transmission of infection from any person concerned with the
handling of milk and milk products, the Commissioner is authorized
to require any or all of the following measures:
1. The immediate exclusion of that person from milk handling;
2. The immediate exclusion of the milk supply concerned from
distribution and use; and
3. Adequate medical examination and testing of the person, of
his or her associates, and of the bodily discharges of both.
Status: in_force · Read it on the official government site
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