The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Alaska
- Level
- State
- Authority
- AS 17.20 (Alaska Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act) and AS 44.46.020 (as the Alaska Food Code recites); 18 AAC 31 (Alaska Food Code)
- Issued
- 2026-09-28 Sept. 28, 2026
- Effective
- standing (read as 2026-09-28)
- End
- standing
- In force
- Standing since Sept. 28, 2026 (a statutory duty; in force throughout the six quarters)
- Quarters
- 2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationStanding duty
- Addressees
- specified businesses: operators of food establishments (restaurants, bars serving food, grocery and retail food, processors, camps, institutions, mobile units)
- Character
- sanitary code duty
- Collection
- Standing duties: Alaska DUT-AK
Operative words
(a) The operator of a food establishment shall take all reasonable precautions to ensure that each employee with an infected wound or a disease communicable by food is not working in a food establishment in any capacity that might contaminate food or a food-contact surface. (b) The operator... shall ensure that... each employee reports each of the following conditions to the operator
Penalty
Permit suspension and immediate closure under 18 AAC 31.905 (DUT-AK-012).
What it required
A standing operator's duty to keep employees with communicable disease or the listed symptoms (vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice, sore throat with fever, infected lesions) out of food handling, to require employee reporting of those conditions, to exclude or restrict under Table E, and to notify the department within 24 hours of listed diagnoses; with 18 AAC 31.320 (the person in charge 'shall' identify hazards, develop and implement policies 'to prevent foodborne illness' and train employees), it is the sanitary-code footing of the symptom-screening and exclusion protocols of Mandate 016 Attachment F (Ex. AK-042) and of DEC's COVID-19 guidance (DUT-AK-013).
Retrieval noteCodified text as reproduced by Cornell LII's Alaska Administrative Code mirror (DEC's own PDF of 18 AAC 31 returned HTTP 403 to every fetch). Mandate 016 Attachment F conditioned dine-in reopening on continuing 'to follow all regulatory and legal standards required to operate a food services business in Alaska' (Ex. AK-042 sec. II.a.ii), which incorporates this chapter.