Tex. Health & Safety Code § 438.032 · Subchapter C. FOOD SERVICE EMPLOYEES
INFECTED PERSONS; FOOD HANDLING PROHIBITED.
Text — Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
(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:
(1) is infected with a disease that is transmissible through the handling of food;
(2) resides in a household in which there is a transmissible case of a communicable disease that may be food borne;
(3) is known to be a carrier of the organisms causing a communicable disease that may be food borne; or
(4) has a local infection that is commonly transmitted through the handling of food.
(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.
Notes and commentary — not statutory text
History
Acts 1989, 71st Leg., ch. 678, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1989.
Source of truth
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- Current through the 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025
- Official file
- https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/HS/htm/HS.438.htm
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