Around 40% of outbreaks with known causes from 2017 to 2019 were associated with a sick or infectious worker, the report found.
Investigators with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called for better enforcement of “comprehensive food safety policies"Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday.
Although 85% of restaurants said they had policies restricting staff from working while sick, only about 16% of the policies were detailed enough to require workers to notify managers and to stay home if they had any of the five key symptoms — including vomiting, diarrhea, and sore throat with fever.
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