§ 381.61 - Cleanliness and hygiene of official establishment personnel.

(a) No official establishment shall employ, in any department where any poultry product is processed or otherwise handled, any person showing evidence of a communicable disease in a transmissible stage or known to be a carrier of such disease, or while affected with boils, sores, infected wounds, or other abnormal sources of microbiological contaminants.

(b) All persons coming in contact with exposed poultry products, or poultry products handling equipment shall wear clean garments and suitable head coverings to prevent hair from falling into poultry products; and shall keep their hands and fingernails clean at all times while thus engaged.

(c) Every person shall wash his hands thoroughly after each use of toilet or change of garments before returning to duties that require the handling of dressed poultry or other poultry products or containers thereof, or poultry product handling equipment.

(d) The use of tobacco in any form, the eating of food, or any other personal habit which may result in adulteration of any poultry product shall not be permitted in any room where exposed dressed poultry or other poultry products are being processed or otherwise handled.