Food plant employees with certain illnesses or injuries should be excluded from food handling activities; these illness include jaundice, diarrhea, vomiting, fever, sore throat with fever, open or infected skin lesions (e.g., boils, cuts, burns), discharges from the eyes, ears or nose, or any disease that can be transmitted through food. Employees should inform their supervisors if they suffer from any of these health conditions. In addition, supervisory personnel in food plants should constantly monitor food-handling employees for these injuries and illnesses.