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2010 Tennessee Code
Title 53 - Food, Drugs And Cosmetics
Chapter 8 - Establishments Selling Food
Part 1 - Health and Sanitation
53-8-108 - Workers to wash hands and arms.
53-8-108. Workers to wash hands and arms.
Before beginning work or after visiting the toilet or toilets, operatives, clerks and all persons who handle the material from which food is prepared, or the finished product, shall wash their hands and arms thoroughly in clean water.
[Acts 1909, ch. 473, § 5; Shan., § 3473a48; Code 1932, § 6605; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 52-1009.]
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