W. Va. Code R. § 61-4A-28

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 61-4A-28 - Personnel Health

28.1. No person affected with any disease in a communicable form, or while a carrier of such disease, shall work at any dairy farm or milk plant in any capacity which brings him into contact with the production, handling, storage, or transportation of milk, milk products, containers, equipment and utensils; and no dairy farm or milk plant operator 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 producer or distributor of milk or milk products, upon whose dairy farm or in whose milk plant any communicable disease occurs, or who suspects that any employees has contracted any disease in a communicable form, or has become a carrier of such disease, shall notify the Commissioner immediately.

28.2. When reasonable cause exists to suspect the possibility of transmission of infection from any person concerned with the handling of milk and/or milk products, the Commissioner is authorized to require any or all of the following measures:

28.2.1. The immediate exclusion of that person from milk handling;

28.2.2. The immediate exclusion of the milk supply concerned from distribution and use; and

28.2.3. Adequate medical and bacteriological examination of the person, of his associates, and of his and their body discharges.

W. Va. Code R. § 61-4A-28