Minnesota Administrative Rules
Agency 144 - Health Department
Chapter 4626 - FOOD CODE; FOOD MANAGERS
EMPLOYEE HEALTH
Part 4626.0045 - EXCLUSIONS AND RESTRICTIONS.* 2-201.12

A. exclude a food employee from a food establishment if the food employee is ill with vomiting or diarrhea;P1

B. exclude a food employee from working with exposed food, clean equipment, and clean utensils in a food establishment if the food employee has an enteric bacterial, viral, or parasitic pathogen capable of being transmitted by food, such as norovirus, Salmonella spp., Shigella spp., hepatitis A or Shiga toxin-producing E. coli;P1

C. restrict an employee if the results of an epidemiological investigation by the commissioner of health under Minnesota Statutes, section 31.171, determines that a food employee or conditional employee presents a risk for transmission of foodborne disease.;P1 and

D. restrict an employee if the employee is infected with a skin lesion containing pus such as a boil or infected wound that is open or draining and not properly covered as specified in part 4626.0040, item A, subitem (1), unit (e).P1