Section 438.032 - Infected Persons; Food Handling Prohibited(a) A person may not handle food, utensils, dishes, or serving implements that are for public sale or for the consumption or use by another if the person: (1) is infected with a disease that is transmissible through the handling of food;(2) resides in a household in which there is a transmissible case of a communicable disease that may be food borne;(3) is known to be a carrier of the organisms causing a communicable disease that may be food borne; or(4) has a local infection that is commonly transmitted through the handling of food.(b) A person, firm, corporation, or organization operating or managing a public eating place or vehicle or other place where food is manufactured, processed, prepared, dispensed, or handled in a manner or under circumstances that would permit the probable transmission of disease from a handler to a consumer may not employ a person described in Subsection (a) to handle the food, utensils, dishes, or serving implements.Tex. Health and Safety Code § 438.032
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1989.