Section 120. Procedure when infection is suspected

When reasonable cause exists to suspect the possibility of transmission of infection of a communicable disease from any person concerned with the handling of milk or milk products to any other person, the person concerned with the handling of milk or milk products and the person holding the grade A permit shall comply with the following measures:

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

2. No grade A permit holder may sell or offer for sale any milk or milk products that have been handled by or exposed to a person who is suspected of having a communicable disease or being a carrier of a communicable disease; and

3. Each person who is suspected of having a communicable disease or being a carrier of a communicable disease and his associates, at the discretion of the State Regulatory Authority, shall submit to medical and bacteriological examination by a licensed physician in the Commonwealth sufficient to make a medical diagnosis.

Historical Notes

Derived from VR115-05-01 § 12, eff. October 15, 1986; amended, Volume 03, Issue 10, eff. March 18, 1987; Volume 09, Issue 23, eff. September 8, 1993; Volume 23, Issue 20, eff. May 23, 2007.

Statutory Authority

§ 3.2-5206 of the Code of Virginia.