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Apply for infection protection instruction including certificate
Service Description
Do you produce food, handle it or place it on the market? Do you come into contact with these foods directly or indirectly (via consumer goods, such as plates or cutlery)? You would like to work or be active in kitchens of restaurants, canteens and cafés or in facilities for communal catering?
Then you need a certificate from the health office that is no more than 3 months old. This proves that you have successfully participated in a course of instruction on infection control measures.
The aim of the instruction is to enable you to recognize your own symptoms of infectious diseases or symptoms of your employees at an early stage. You should also be able to prevent the further spread of pathogens and contamination of foodstuffs, and to assess when you should no longer carry out your work if you have certain symptoms.
The certificate is issued either by the health office or by a physician appointed by the health office.
Who should I contact?
To the health department of your district office or city.
Requirements
- You are taking up a professional activity or occupation for the first time in which you come into contact with food directly or indirectly, for example via tableware, when producing, handling or placing food on the market and/or
- You want to take up an activity or employment in kitchens of restaurants and other facilities with or for communal catering for the first time.
- There is no evidence that you have an infectious disease (for example, salmonellosis, shigellosis or other infectious gastrointestinal diseases, hepatitis A or E).
What else should I know?
The Infection Protection Act does not contain any specific requirements regarding the form of instruction.
After the instruction, it must be declared in text form that no facts are known for an activity prohibition (for example, infectious gastroenteritis).
If there are indications that there are grounds for prohibiting work in the food sector, the certificate may not be issued until a medical certificate proves that the relevant ground for prohibition no longer exists.
Author
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
Technically approved by
Thuringian Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Health, Women and Family Affairs
Professionally released on
18.09.2023
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
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