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007.10.39-111.2. Special Risk Situations

AR ADC 007.10.39-111.2Arkansas Administrative Code

West's Arkansas Administrative Code
Title 007. Department of Health
Division 10. Environmental Health Protection
Rule 39. Rules Pertaining to Good Manufacturing Practices (Refs & Annos)
Ark. Admin. Code 007.10.39-111.2
007.10.39-111.2. Special Risk Situations
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A. EMERGENCY OCCURANCES [FN1]
The person in charge of a food establishment that is affected by a fire, flood, extended power outage or a similar significant occurrence that creates a reasonable probability that food in the food establishment may have been contaminated or that the temperature level of the food which is in a potentially hazardous form may have caused that food to have become hazardous to health, shall take such action as is necessary to protect the public health and shall promptly notify the Arkansas Department of Health of the emergency. Upon receiving such notice of this occurrence, the Health Authority shall take action deemed necessary to protect the public health.
B. INFECTION
When the Arkansas Department of Health has reasonable cause to suspect possible disease transmission by an employee of a food processing establishment, the Department may secure a morbidity history of the employee or make any other investigation as indicated and shall take appropriate action. The Arkansas Department of Health may require at a minimum any or all of the following measures:
1. The immediate exclusion of the employee from employment in food establishments;
2. The immediate closing of the food establishment concerned until no further danger of disease outbreak exists;
3. Restriction of the employee's services to some area of the establishment where there would be no danger of transmitting disease;
4. Adequate medical laboratory examination of the employee and other employees and of his and their body discharges.

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Adopted Feb. 21, 2013.
[FN1]
So in original.
Current with amendments received through February 15, 2024. Some sections may be more current, see credit for details.
Ark. Admin. Code 007.10.39-111.2, AR ADC 007.10.39-111.2
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