44:02:07:08. Removal of employee exclusions for certain illnesses. The person in charge may remove an exclusion specified in subdivision 44:02:07:07(1) if the person in charge obtains approval from the regulatory authority or if the person excluded provides to the person in charge written medical documentation from a physician that specifies that the excluded person:
(1) May work in an unrestricted capacity in a food establishment, including an establishment that serves a highly susceptible population, because the person is free of:
(a) The infectious agent of concern; or
(b) Symptoms, if hepatitis A virus is the infectious agent of concern; or
(2) May only work in an unrestricted capacity in a food establishment that does not serve a highly susceptible population because the person:
(a) Is free of the symptoms specified in subdivision 44:02:07:06(2)(a); and
(b) Has a stool that yields a specimen culture that is negative for Shigella spp. or Escherichia coli O157:H7.
Source: 23 SDR 195, effective May 26, 1997.
