El Cajon Municipal Code Ch. 8.20 Food and Food Establishments—food Handlers

For the purpose of this chapter, the following words shall have the meanings ascribed to them by this section:

"Department"

means the county department of public health.

"Director"

means the director of the county department of public health or his duly appointed deputy or representative.

"Food handler"

means any person engaged or employed in a business, occupation or establishment for which a permit is required by Chapters 8.16 and 8.20 who handles food in such manner that some portion of his clothing or body or body discharges might come in contact with such food or with the utensils used in connection therewith.

(Ord. 2923 § 1, 1976)

No person who has contracted or is afflicted with a disease or infection determined by the director to be a danger to public health, transmissible either directly or through food or drink to other persons, or who is known or suspected to be a carrier of organisms causing such disease, or who has come in contact with any person afflicted with such communicable disease or infection, shall act or be engaged or employed as a food handler.

(Ord. 2923 § 1, 1976)

Whenever information that the possibility of transmission of disease determined by the director to be a danger to public health exists in a food handler or in any business, occupation or establishment for which a permit is required by Chapters 8.16 and 8.20 presented to the director, he shall investigate conditions and take appropriate action. The director may, after investigation, and for reasonable cause, require any of the following measures to be taken:

A. The immediate exclusion by the director of any food handler from the affected business or establishment;

B. The immediate closing of any affected business or establishment until, in the opinion of the director, no further danger of the outbreak of disease exists;

C. Medical examination of the owner, employee, and his coemployees, with such laboratory examination as may be indicated; or should such examination or examinations be refused, then the immediate exclusion of the refusing owner, employee or coemployee from that or any other food establishment operation, until a medical or laboratory examination shows that the person is not infected with, or a carrier of, any such disease in a communicable form.

(Ord. 2923 § 1, 1976)

No fee shall be charged for any test or examination made pursuant to this chapter by the department. The county shall not be liable for any fee or charge made for any test, X-ray or examination required by this chapter that is not made by the department.

(Ord. 2923 § 1, 1976)