The National Health and Family Planning Commission issued the Catalogue of Diseases Affecting Food Safety, which stipulates that persons suffering from diseases that hinder food safety stipulated by the health administrative department of the State Council shall not engage in the work of contacting directly imported food. Including (1) cholera, (2) bacterial and amebic dysentery, (3) typhoid and paratyphoid, (4) viral hepatitis (type A and E), (5) active tuberculosis, (6) purulent or exudative dermatosis.
Legal basis: People's Republic of China (PRC) Food Safety Law.
Article 45 Food producers and business operators shall establish and implement the health management system for employees. Persons suffering from diseases that hinder food safety as stipulated by the administrative department of health of the State Council shall not engage in direct contact with imported food.
Food production and marketing personnel engaged in direct contact with imported food shall undergo annual health examination and obtain health certificates before taking up their posts.