The health authority may take and examine samples
of food, drink and other substances as often as he/she deems necessary
for the detection of unwholesomeness, adulteration or contamination.
At the time such samples are taken, a receipt shall be forwarded or
delivered to the operator in charge of the vending machine.
The health authority may forbid the sale or
use of any food or drink from a vending machine which is or is suspected
of being unwholesome, adulterated or misbranded.
The health authority may forbid the use of a
vending machine or any equipment or utensils thereof which have not
been properly treated by an approved bactericidal process or which,
in his/her opinion, may lead to the adulteration or contamination
of any food or drink with which it may come into contact.
The health authority shall inspect, as often
as he/she deems necessary, every food vending machine or commissary
thereof. The operator in charge of a food vending machine establishment
shall permit access to it and commissaries thereof and shall make
available all records of food purchased upon request of the health
authority.
A.
The health authority, having reason to believe that
any food vending machine or commissary thereof is or may be a source
of any foodborne infection, shall advise the operator thereof accordingly
and order appropriate action to be taken which will eliminate the
source of infection. In the event that such action is not taken immediately,
he/she may order such food vending machine or commissary thereof to
be closed and post a statement in a conspicuous place at the entrance
thereof, stating: "The sale of food or drink by this establishment
is forbidden — Board of Health," which order shall be effective
and statement shall remain posted until the action ordered to eliminate
the source of foodborne infection has been completed.
B.
No person or persons shall interfere with or remove
any seal or statement on any vending machine or commissary placed
by the local health authority in accordance with the provisions of
this chapter.
C.
The health authority who believes an employee of any
vending machine or commissary thereof is ill or infected with a disease
or may be a carrier of a disease which may be transmitted through
food may order him/her to leave the establishment and refrain from
returning to work in or about such establishment and order the employer
to prohibit the employee from returning to work, until permission
is granted to return by the health authority.
