Hi all
I'm putting my hands up now; I have no idea about this one, hence my asking all of you. I have no shame. If my question makes any one of you laugh out loud, I've not got a problem with it.
Anyhoo, I had a conversation with the head of catering here yesterday. He thinks that any/every food handler working here should be required to provide a stool specimen on their return from annual leave if they have travelled outside of the EU. I'm talking regardless if they come back fit and healthy; they should still be required to provide a stool sample. I was quite shocked, I have to say. I said: we don't do that here. Their retort was something along the lines of "there's quite a lot of things you don't do here...".
After much googling I came across a document on the web that looked military in origin saying something along the lines of testing civillian food handlers' stools on return from travel as a routine practice. I then called the head of catering and asked him if he was ex-military. He said he wasn't, but has a strong background in the commercial food industry. He also said that he would send me something on the subject, but hasn't as yet.
My question is: has ANYONE come across this sort of practice as standard? Is it written in to a food handlers' contract that they do this? How?
S :-)
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