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r -: <br />O`tlty OFR�7p <br />�b <br />Town of Reading <br />° <br />Meeting Minutes <br />4lQJg.1NCOt�4��P� _ ' <br />Board - Committee - Commission - Council: <br />Board of Health <br />Date: 2017-12-19 <br />Building: Reading Town Hall <br />Address: 16 Lowell Street. <br />Purpose: General Business <br />Attendees:' Members - Present: <br />1010 JAN 4 I A 10:'_0 31 <br />Time: 5:30 PM <br />Location:. Berger Room <br />Session: General Session <br />John Costigan, Kevin Sexton, Heidi Pfieier <br />Members -Not Present: <br />Others Present: <br />Jean Delios - Assistant Town Manager, Laura Vlasuk - Health Agent, Michael <br />Monahan- member of the Public <br />Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Kristen Grover <br />Topics of Discussion: <br />Costigan called the Board of Health meeting to order at 5:30pm in the Berger Room at the <br />Town Hall. The first item on the Agenda was Open Public Discussion. Michael Manahan of <br />Bancroft Ave in Reading was the only member of the Public present. <br />OPEN PUBLIC DISCUSSION . <br />Monahan handed out an article to the Board that addressed the death of a teena , er by <br />overdose of caffeine. He discussed the article and mentioned that, he is'aware of a similar <br />problem in Reading. He stated that that teenagers and younger purchase energ drinks and <br />caffeine pills at stores like CVS and also vape nicotine. He further stated that caffeine pills, <br />energy drinks and nicotine are all stimulants, and use of these products is a big roblem in <br />these age groups. <br />Monahan stated he hoped for cooperation from CVS in that they would be responsible and <br />agree to stop selling to the 18 and under age group. He discussed his "conversat'on with <br />CVS Management regarding cashiers unable to be prompted to ask.for ID, and tlat they <br />were not truthful because the cashier. is prompted for cough medicine. He told he Board <br />he was present to inquire about a Town wide mechanism to stop selling stimulants to <br />children. <br />Costigan mentioned that there is a Federal Regulation for the sale of Pseudoephedrine which <br />causes a prompt at the. register at the time of sale, and that the Town has reguloted <br />flavored tobacco - vape. He stated that he could look into regulations restrictin6 the sale of <br />caffeine such as No Doze available at CVS and Rite Aid, but there probably isn't <br />restriction. He mentioned Trade and Commerce issues and used the example o only being: <br />able to restrict the sale of flavored tobacco, but not al.l tobacco. <br />Pfeifer offered to do research and literature, review to find out if this is a nation ide <br />problem. She also suggested the option of going to schools and offering educaton on the <br />problem. <br />Page 1 1 <br />