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Okla. Stat. tit. 2, § 2-7-411: Persons affected with communicable disease

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A. No person affected with any disease capable of being

transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall work

at any dairy farm or milk plant in any capacity which brings that

person into contact with the equipment involved or employees engaged

in the producing, handling, storing, or transporting of milk, milk

products, containers, equipment, and utensils; and no milk producer

or milk plant operator shall employ in any capacity any affected

person, any person suspected of having any disease capable of being

transmitted to others through the contamination of food, or of being

a carrier of communicable diseases. Any milk producer, processor,

or distributor who suspects that any employee has contracted any

disease or has become a carrier of a disease capable of being

transmitted to others through the contamination of food shall notify

the Commissioner of Agriculture immediately.

B. When reasonable cause exists to suspect the possibility of

transmission of infection from any person concerned with the

handling of milk and milk products, the Commissioner is authorized

to require any or all of the following measures:

1. The immediate exclusion of that person from milk handling;

2. The immediate exclusion of the milk supply concerned from

distribution and use; and

3. Adequate medical examination and testing of the person, of

his or her associates, and of the bodily discharges of both.

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