97.59 Handling foods. No person in charge of any public eating place or other establishment where food products to be consumed by others are handled may knowingly employ any person handling food products who has a disease in a form that is communicable by food handling. If required by the local health officer or any officer of the department for the purposes of an investigation, any person who is employed in the handling of foods or is suspected of having a disease in a form that is communicable by food handling shall submit to an examination by the officer or by a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice nurse prescriber designated by the officer. The expense of the examination, if any, shall be paid by the person examined. Any person knowingly infected with a disease in a form that is communicable by food handling who handles food products to be consumed by others and any persons knowingly employing or permitting such a person to handle food products to be consumed by others shall be punished as provided by s. 97.72.
History: 1981 c. 291; 1993 a. 27 s. 298; Stats. 1993 s. 252.18; 2005 a. 187; 2011 a. 161; 2015 a. 55 s. 4040; Stats. 2015 s. 97.59.
Structure Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Wisconsin Statutes & Annotations
Chapter 97 - Food, lodging, and recreation.
97.02 - Standards; adulterated food.
97.03 - Standards; misbranding.
97.13 - Sale of fish flour regulated.
97.17 - Buttermaker and cheesemaker license.
97.175 - Butter and cheese grader license requirements.
97.176 - Butter; grading; label.
97.177 - Cheese; grading; labeling.
97.18 - Oleomargarine regulations.
97.21 - Milk haulers and milk distributors.
97.23 - Drug residues in milk.
97.24 - Milk and milk products.
97.25 - Use of synthetic bovine growth hormone; labeling of dairy products.
97.29 - Food processing plants.
97.30 - Retail food establishments.
97.305 - Restaurants serving fish.
97.307 - Average annual surveys.
97.32 - Special dairy and food inspectors.
97.33 - Certificate of food protection practices.
97.34 - Bottled drinking water and soda water beverage; standards; sampling and analysis.
97.41 - Retail food: agent status for local health departments.
97.42 - Compulsory inspection of livestock or poultry, and meat or poultry products.
97.43 - Meat from dead or diseased animals.
97.44 - Identification of meat for animal feed; registration and records of buyers.
97.57 - Planted or cultivated rice.
97.60 - Coordination; certification.
97.605 - Lodging and vending licenses.
97.607 - Pre-licensing inspection.
97.61 - Vending machine commissary outside the state.
97.615 - Agent status for local health departments.
97.617 - Application; lodging and vending.
97.62 - Health and safety; standard.
97.625 - Powers of the department and local health departments.
97.627 - Causing fires by tobacco smoking.
97.633 - Hotelkeeper's liability.
97.634 - Hotelkeeper's liability for baggage; limitation.
97.635 - Liability of hotelkeeper for loss of property by fire or theft; owner's risk.
97.638 - Hotel rates posted; rate charges; special rates.
97.67 - Recreational licenses and fees.
97.70 - Authority of department of safety and professional services.