Push to allow dogs on restaurant patios

The Ohio Department of Health currently bans animals on restaurant patios but a state senator is trying to change that.Earlier in 2017, the state health department cracked down on establishments, enforcing a 24-year-old regulation that bans dogs. It cites the USFDA in its reasoning:“Animals carry disease-causing organisms and can transmit pathogens to humans through direct and/or indirect contamination of food and food-contact surfaces. Animals shed hair continuously and may deposit liquid