Owing to climate change and global warming, foodborne infectious diseases are becoming inevitable problems in many countries, and this is also the case in Korea. One of the causal factor of foodborne disease outbreak in the food service business(i.e. restaurant or mass feeding facilities) is inappropriate management of infected food handlers. The need for strengthening of the indications for managing infected food handlers is emphasized continuously. However, precise legal interpretations or analyzation should be done based on microbiological fundamentals before strengthening the guidelines. Therefore, this study analyzes the legal policies of Korea associated with infection control of food handlers and proposes shortcomings or supplementations to existing legal policies.

This study will propose newly emerging food businesses followed by demographical changes of customers or development of internet based environment and considered food safety related laws or legal application on it. This emerging food business could not be defined as classical criteria based on the food safety laws, so that they have to be controlled by differentiated legal criteria. Total fourteen related laws which have to be applied on newly emerging food business retailing general food or packed animal products have been considered and administrative disposition criteria was also suggested in this study. This study systematically propose the legal criteria for changing or emerging food business and highlight the importance of sustainable or differentiated food safety management of possible future food business.