Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 51 - PUBLIC HEALTH-SANITARY CODE › Part VII - Dairy Products Regulations › Chapter 9 - General Requirements for Dairy Plants › Subchapter B - Dairy Plant Construction, Sanitation and Operation › Section VII-971 - Notification of Disease

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A.
				  Dairy plant operators and dairy plant management who have received reports,
				  under §969, from employees who have handled pasteurized, ultra-pasteurized or
				  aseptically processed milk, pasteurized milk products or associated
				  product-contact surfaces shall immediately report these facts to the state
				  health officer.
B. When a person
				  has been reported under §969, or is otherwise known to meet one or more of the
				  conditions listed under §969, and it is found that such person may have handled
				  pasteurized, ultra-pasteurized or aseptically processed milk, pasteurized milk
				  products or associated product-contact surfaces, the state health officer is
				  authorized to require any or all the following measures:
1. the immediate restricting of that person
				  from duties which require handling finished product such as, but not limited
				  to, pasteurized milk or dairy products, or the handling of related
				  product-contact surfaces. This restriction may be lifted after an appropriate
				  medical clearance or cessation of symptoms or both, according to the following
				  criteria in the following table;
Removal of Restrictions When Infection or
								High Risk of Infection is Discovered
Health Status
Removing Restrictions
Is diagnosed with an illness due to Hepatitis A
								virus,
Salmonella typhi
, Shigella species, Norwalk and
								Norwalk-like viruses,
Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes,
								Escherichia coli
0157:H7, enterohemorrhagic
Escherichia
								coli
, enterotoxigenic
Escherichia coli
,
Campylobactor jejuni, Entamoeba histolytica, Giardia lamblia
,
								Non-typhoidal Salmonella, Rotovirus,
Taenia solium, Yersinia
								enterocolitica, Vibrio cholerae
O1, tuberculosis or other infectious
								or communicable disease that has been declared by the state health officer to
								be transmissible to others through the handling of food or has ben clearly
								shown to be so based upon verifiable epidemiological data.
Restrictions lifted by medical clearance.
Meeting a high risk scenario as specified in §969.
								B.2 and/or experiencing symptoms in §969. C 1
Restrictions lifted when symptoms cease or medical
								documentation is provided that infection does not exist.
Asymptomatic, but stools positive for
Salmonella typhi, Shigella or Escherichia
coli 0157:H7.
Restrictions lifted by medical clearance.
Past illness from
Salmonella typhi,
								Shigella, Escherichia coli
0157:H7 or other human pathogens for which
								humans have been determined to be carriers.
Restrictions lifted by medical clearance.
In the case of diagnosed or suspected Hepatitis A,
								onset of jaundice within the last seven days.
Restrictions lifted by medical clearance.
In the case of diagnosed or suspected Hepatitis A,
								onset of jaundice occurred more than seven days ago.
Restrictions lifted by medical clearance or
								jaundice ceases.
2.
				  the immediate exclusion of the affected dairy products from distribution and
				  use when medically appropriate; and
3. the immediate requesting of medical and
				  microbiological examination of the person at risk.