{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-852/annex-II/chapter-VIII",
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  "legislation": "eur/2004/852",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EC) No 852/2004 of the european parliament and of the council of 29 April 2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-852",
  "path": "annex/II/chapter/VIII",
  "kind": "chapter",
  "number": "VIII",
  "heading": "Personal hygiene",
  "text": "1.. Every person working in a food-handling area is to maintain a high degree of personal cleanliness and is to wear suitable, clean and, where necessary, protective clothing.\n2.. No person suffering from, or being a carrier of a disease likely to be transmitted through food or afflicted, for example, with infected wounds, skin infections, sores or diarrhoea is to be permitted to handle food or enter any food-handling area in any capacity if there is any likelihood of direct or indirect contamination. Any person so affected and employed in a food business and who is likely to come into contact with food is to report immediately the illness or symptoms, and if possible their causes, to the food business operator.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/852/annex/II/chapter/VIII",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:34.294835+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}