Prevention and Control of Communicable Diseases Law.

This Law shall set forth the basics in the management of prevention and control of communicable diseases in humans.
A Health Officer has the right to do laboratory investigation of any food, water and other necessary materials. When a Epidemic Disease or a Notifiable Disease occurs in an area to which Health Officer is assigned, he shall perform the duties including: 1 inspection of the infected house, food processing industry, factory, place of work, markets and shops, other necessary houses, premises, location, buildings and causing sanitation and other necessary measures to be carried out; 2.directing the ban or destruction of food which are unfit for human consumption; 3. directing the destruction of or ban on the sale of food causing or suspected of causing animal and animal products the spread of a Epidemic Disease or the closure of the factory, mill, place of work, market or shop producing or selling such food; etc.
The Law further provides for measures for environmental sanitation, reporting communicable disease, quarantine, penalties, etc.