§ 189A.6 — Health examination of employees

Iowa § 189A.6

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title V: AGRICULTURE
• Ch. 189A: MEAT AND POULTRY INSPECTION

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The operator of any establishment shall require all employees of such establishment
to have a health examination by a physician or physician assistant and a certified health
certificate for each employee shall be kept on file by the operator. The secretary may at
any time require an employee of an establishment to submit to a health examination by
a physician or physician assistant. No person suffering from any communicable disease,
including any communicable skin disease, and no person with infected wounds, and no
person who is a “carrier” of a communicable disease shall be employed in any capacity in an
establishment. No person shall work or be employed in or about any establishment during
the time in which a communicable disease exists in the home in which such person resides
unless such person has obtained a certificate from a physician or physician assistant to the
effect that no danger of public contagion or infection will result from the employment of such
person in such establishment. Every person employed by an establishment and engaged in
direct physical contact with meat or poultry products during its preparation, processing, or
storage, shall be clean in person, wear clean washable outer garments and a suitable cap or
other head covering used exclusively in such work. Only persons specifically designated by
the operator of an establishment shall be permitted to touch meat or poultry products with
their hands, and the persons so designated shall keep their hands scrupulously clean.

Legislative History

[C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, 79, 81, §189A.6]