A.
Food, beverages or ingredients while in transit to
vending machine locations shall be protected from the elements, dirt,
dust, insects, rodents and other contamination. Similar protection
shall be provided for single-service articles and for the product
contact surfaces of equipment, containers and devices in transit to
machine locations.
B.
Readily perishable foods or beverages while in transit
to vending machine locations shall be maintained at the temperature
of not more than 50° F. or at a temperature of not less than 150°
F., whichever is applicable.
Employees shall wash their hands immediately
prior to engaging in any vending machine servicing operation which
may bring them into contact with foods, beverages or ingredients or
with product contact surfaces of utensils, containers or equipment.
While engaged in such servicing operations, employees shall wear clean
outer garments.
A.
No employee with any disease in a communicable form,
or who is a carrier of such disease, shall work in any commissary
or in vending machine operations in any capacity which brings him/her
into contact with the production, handling, storage or transportation
of foods, beverages, ingredients or equipment used in vending machine
operations, and no operator shall employ in any such capacity any
such person or any person suspected of having any disease in a communicable
form or of being a carrier of such disease. Any employee who has a
discharging or infected wound, sore or lesion on hands, arms or any
exposed portion of the body shall be excluded from those operations
which bring him/her into contact with foods, beverages, utensils or
equipment used in vending machine operations. Any operator among whose
employees there occurs a communicable disease or who suspects that
any employee has contracted any disease in a communicable form or
has become a carrier of such disease shall notify the health authority
immediately.
B.
When suspicion arises as to the possibility of transmission
of infection from any employee, the health authority is authorized
to require any or all of the following measures:
(1)
The immediate exclusion of the employee from all commissaries
and vending machine operations.
(2)
The immediate closing of the commissaries and operations
concerned until, in the opinion of the health authority, no further
danger of disease outbreak exists.
(3)
Medical examinations of the employees, with such laboratory
examinations as may be indicated.
