2010 Tennessee Code
Title 53 - Food, Drugs And Cosmetics
Chapter 8 - Establishments Selling Food
Part 2 - Retail Food Store Inspection Act of 1986
53-8-220 - Employee health.
53-8-220. Employee health.
When the commissioner has reasonable cause to suspect possible disease transmission by an employee of a facility, the commissioner may secure a morbidity history of the employee or make other investigations as may be indicated. The commissioner may require any of the following:
(1) The immediate exclusion of the employee from employment in the retail food store;
(2) The immediate closing of the facility until, in the commissioner's opinion, no further danger of disease outbreak exists;
(3) Restriction of the employee's service to some area of the facility where there would be little likelihood of transmitting disease; or
(4) Adequate medical and laboratory examinations of the employee and of other employees.
[Acts 1986, ch. 633, § 21.]
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