Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Chapter 57 - Food Protection
Section 5708 - Infectious persons


No proprietor shall allow any food employee to be in a retail food facility if that person has an infectious or communicable disease, as prohibited under the act of April 23, 1956 (1955 P.L.1510, No.500), known as the Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955, and its attendant regulations related to restrictions on food handlers. In consultation with the Department of Health, the department may promulgate regulations with respect to specific illnesses as related to operations in a retail food facility as it deems necessary for the protection of public health.

Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes

Title 3 - AGRICULTURE

Chapter 57 - Food Protection

Extra - Chapter Notes

Section 5701 - Short title of subchapter

Section 5702 - Definitions

Section 5703 - License required

Section 5704 - Inspection, sampling and analysis

Section 5707 - Powers of department

Section 5708 - Infectious persons

Section 5709 - Linens, equipment and utensils

Section 5710 - Retail food facility and employee cleanliness

Section 5711 - Toilets, sinks and drains

Section 5712 - Applicability

Section 5713 - School cafeterias and organized camps

Section 5714 - Penalties

Section 5721 - Short title of subchapter

Section 5722 - Definitions

Section 5723 - Prohibited acts

Section 5724 - Temporary or permanent injunctions

Section 5725 - Penalties

Section 5726 - Detention and condemnation

Section 5727 - Temporary permits

Section 5728 - Adulteration of food

Section 5729 - Misbranding of food

Section 5730 - Regulations to exempt certain labeling requirements

Section 5731 - Poisonous or deleterious substances and tolerances

Section 5732 - Inspection, sampling and analysis

Section 5733 - Rules and regulations

Section 5734 - Registration of food establishments

Section 5735 - Product registration

Section 5736 - Construction of subchapter

Section 5737 - Acts not affected

Section 5741 - Scope of subchapter

Section 5742 - Definitions

Section 5743 - Label requirement

Section 5744 - Sell-by date or best-by date of greater than 17 days from pasteurization

Section 5745 - Prohibitions

Section 5746 - Monitoring by milk plants and department

Section 5747 - Regulations