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Show Health Board To Require Food Handlers To Have Examinaiion According to Mayor W. Robert Marrott, the city-county board of health has made it manditory that beginning Jan. 1, 1953, all food handlers will be required to have a physical examination. This includes those working in restaurants, markets, milk plants, soft drink establishments and beer parlors, confectionary stores, bakeries, bak-eries, bottling plants, candy factories, fac-tories, school lunches and ice cream or frozen dessert establishments. establish-ments. This is one phase of the program pro-gram to insure safe handling of food and drink. All food and drink establishments establish-ments will be inspected regularly once a month and at that time inspectors in-spectors will insist that all food handlers have their health cards available. Employers were urged to insist on all food handlers getting their examination at once. Examinations may be obtained from your family physician in the area where you work. Your family fam-ily physician has been supplied with food handler examination forms. When those are completed they should be mailed at once to the City-County Health Department, Room 311, City and County Building, Build-ing, Provo. A food handlers health card will be mailed to each employee em-ployee so examined. This examination examin-ation will be required yearly. The Department of Health also requests that all food handlers be sure to have chest X-rays when the state mobile unit is in your area, Glen Sager, R.S., sanitary supervisor and C. V. Smith, M.D., Director of Utah County Health Department said. |
