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1 1 1 315 BOARD OF HEALTH MEETING February 8, 1982 The regular monthly meeting of the Board of Health was held Monday, February 8, 1982 at 7:15 p.m. in Room G-1 (Recreation Office) of the Town Office Building. Members present were: Mr. James W. Lambie, Chairman; Dr. Linda Roemer and George A. Smith, Director of Public Health. Minutes of the January 11, 1982 meeting were approved as read. Mr. Smith told the Board that he had a little meeting the other day with MILK Joan Sidley, the new interim director of the Food & Drug Division, State REGULATIONS Health Department. He said the Food and Durg Division is in a real mess. As an example, the New England Milk Dealers Association got a law passed deleting all bacterial standards for milk and cheese. No one knows a thing about it and now they are trying to figure out what to do next. Mr. Smith said he did not know why they did that, unless they are going to do something about synthetics in the future. He said the milk now is anything but milk, these days the nu -form, diet, skim milk, etc. - it's crazy. The milk dealers sell the butterfat to other markets. Milk barely resembles milk anymore. The Food and Drug Division wants new standards for milk. Mr. Lambie asked if this new legislation went through the Legislature? Yes, said Mr. Smith, no one knew about it at all. Mr. Smith said, "At the moment we have no milk standards for this State. We could enforce our own Board of Health Regulations". Joan Sidley of the Food & Drug said their Division is going to try to come up with a new set of standards by summer, but Mr. Smith feels that will be pretty hard to do in that short -period of time. Mr. Lambie said that we could at this time go by the standards of the other New England States. Mr. Smith said that is probably what this State will do. He said if you look at what they do with milk that comes from the cow and is pasteurized, it is pretty safe to drink. Mr. Lambie reported that he had received a letter from Mrs. Wheeler of LETTER FROM Bedford Street, who lives near the pumping station. She feels that there MRS. WHEELER is a potentially serious health problem in the area. RE: PUMPING STATION - She stated during the heavy rains in January the pumping station was not SEWER SURCHARGE able to handle the amount of sewerage and had to pump excess of it into the open fields for several days and they have been subjected several times to sewerage odors even though the sewerage is being treated.