As long as the liver function is normal, hepatitis B surface antigen is not allowed to be checked, and hepatitis B carriers can apply for the health certificate of catering industry normally.

According to the Regulations for the Implementation of the Food Safety Law, it is clearly stipulated that hepatitis B virus carriers are no longer prohibited from engaging in the catering industry, and it is announced that the hepatitis B project testing and threshold for four types of professionals, such as chefs and restaurant waiters, will be cancelled.

Extended information:

In Article 23 of the Regulations for the Implementation of the Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China, food producers and business operators shall establish and implement a health examination system and a health file system for employees in accordance with Article 34 of the Food Safety Law.

food producers and business operators should adjust the workers who are in contact with direct food to other jobs that do not affect food safety if they suffer from digestive tract infectious diseases such as dysentery, typhoid fever, viral hepatitis A and viral hepatitis E, and diseases that hinder food safety such as active tuberculosis, suppurative or exudative dermatosis.

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