FDA Retail Food Protection: Employee Health and Personal Hygiene Handbook

Keywords / Description:

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has developed this Employee Health and Personal Hygiene Handbook to encourage practices and behaviors that can help prevent food employees from spreading viruses and bacteria to food. It provides information in a question-and-answer
format that food establishment management and food employees can use to prevent the spread of disease. This handbook also provides easy reference to forms and tables that food establishments and the public health community may ?nd useful when training staff and addressing employee health and hygiene matters. The information in this handbook is taken from those provisions in the 2005 FDA Food Code and its Supplement aimed at preventing ill food employees from transmitting disease.

Toolkit:

Food Safety Toolkit

Keyword Area:

Environmental Health, Epidemiology, Food Safety, Infectious Diseases

Jurisdiction:

Institutional Author:

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Submitted:

07/25/2012

Modified:

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