title: [Discussion of prerequisites for food production by the public health office--section 18 of the Federal Epidemiology Regulation and Section 43 of the Infection Control Regulation (draft)].
abstract: The Public Health office of the city of Frankfurt am Main processed from 1994 to 1995 to total of 13,434 applications for health certificates in accordance with section 18 of the Federal Epidemics law. In 78 applicants (= 0.56%) the certificate was refused or the applicants barred from exercising their profession because of positive findings in their faeces (usually salmonellae). Other examining offices had also arrived at clearly less than 1% (0.3-0.6%) positive findings. These results support the projected change in the revision of the Federal Epidemics law (Law of Protection against Infections) providing for omission of the once-only performed examination of faeces, in favour, of an intensive and annually repeated training of personnel in matters of hygiene. Infection epidemiology data also show that hygiene in the processing of foods of animal origin is of prime importance for the incidence of infections caused by foods, the other important factor being the ways and means of keeping, breeding and producing the animals concerned.
authors.affiliation: Gesundheitsamt, Stadt Frankfurt am Main.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Heudorf
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005511:Food Handling / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005516:Food Microbiology; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000382:microbiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D012478:Salmonella Food Poisoning / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission; D012477:Salmonella enteritidis; D012486:Salmonella typhimurium
vernacular_title: Zur Diskussion um Voraussetzungen für Lebensmittelzeugnisse des Gesundheitsamtes--section 18 Bundes-Seuchengesetz und section 43 Infektionsschutzgesetz (Entwurf).