{"data":{"id":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-438.032","jurisdiction":"us-tx","citation":"Tex. Health and Safety Code § 438.032","heading":"INFECTED PERSONS; FOOD HANDLING PROHIBITED.","body":"(a) A person may not handle food, utensils, dishes, or serving implements that are for public sale or for the consumption or use by another if the person:\n(1) is infected with a disease that is transmissible through the handling of food;\n(2) resides in a household in which there is a transmissible case of a communicable disease that may be food borne;\n(3) is known to be a carrier of the organisms causing a communicable disease that may be food borne; or\n(4) has a local infection that is commonly transmitted through the handling of food.\n(b) A person, firm, corporation, or organization operating or managing a public eating place or vehicle or other place where food is manufactured, processed, prepared, dispensed, or handled in a manner or under circumstances that would permit the probable transmission of disease from a handler to a consumer may not employ a person described in Subsection (a) to handle the food, utensils, dishes, or serving implements.\nActs 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.","path":["HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE","TITLE 6. FOOD, DRUGS, ALCOHOL, AND HAZARDOUS SUBSTANCES","SUBTITLE A. FOOD AND DRUG HEALTH REGULATIONS","CHAPTER 438. PUBLIC HEALTH MEASURES RELATING TO FOOD","SUBCHAPTER C. FOOD SERVICE EMPLOYEES"],"source_url":"https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.438.htm#438.032","current_through":"89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T01:47:17Z","sha256":"99bd71b4aad1e4afc1f2c558b035f51537269de4de4b94067e2e4ae79ccc0c06","source_id":"us-tx","stale":false,"prev":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-438.031","next":"us-tx/tex.-health-and-safety-code-438.033"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}