1980-10-06 - Laserfiche WebLink

Browse Search

1 1 She is also checking candy in the stores where it is Halloween time. Dr. Cosgrove told the Board about the shipment of frozen spinach that STOP & SHOP had come into the Stop & Shop for their sale. Two people in town had pur- chased it with a mouse or a partial mouse in it. Mr. Smith said he had Tom Quinn, Manager of Stop & Shop, take off the shelves all frozen spinach of that code number and he also talked to the Quality Control Lab. of the Stop & Shop at their main office D Street in Boston. They were ordering it off the shelves in all their stores. Dr. Erdos asked if they had begun to sandblast the Town water towers that were owned by the town. Yes, Mr. Smith said, they are pretty well finished. Dr. Erdos asked if they monitored it. Mr. Smith said, "yes, but it didn't need much". "They have maintained them in good condition throughout the year". Mr. Lambie asked if we should be thinking about lead paint in any way at all? Doing testing on children? Is there anything we should be doing? LEAD PAINT Dr. Erdos said they had been to the meeting at the Northeastern Boards of Health and lead paint screening was the topic. Mr. Smith said that single family houses were exempt in testing until 1984. We get complaints on occasion and I refer them to the Lead Program in the State. They have machines to do it. Dr. Erdos asked if we should be screening day care centers? Mr. Smith said he has been doing those for the past few years. He said he did every day care center last year and the law doesn't require that he do it. The law says he has to do it if the Office for Children requests it or the parent of a child. Their licenses to operate come from the State now. We do not have to license them locally. Mr. Smith said he did many lead paint tests several years ago and he was glad to see them change that law. He said the State came out to one house with machines. They said it would be done in a few hours and it took them two days to go through the house. Mr. Lambie asked if we had a sampling of whether there are children with lead paint poisoning. Mr. Smith said we had a clinic. We did 105 children at that time and the re- sults came back negative. Five came back showing high levels and they were retested and came back negative - it was a technician's error. Dr. Erdos asked should we make it part of school entrance exams or make it part of the pediatricians exams?