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Health Board Grants Hummus Maker Grease Trap Variance

Medford's Board of Health approved a grease trap variance for hummus maker Just Us Foods. The board voted 2-0, with Dr. Platowitz and Jenny Vitale in favor, to let the company's Medford facility pump its grease trap every six months instead of four.

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Government · Board of Health

Board OKs fish-cleaning variance for seafood shop

Lowell Board of Health unanimously grants a Pine Street seafood market the right to clean whole fish for customers. The board voted 5-0 to let I Got Crabs & Seafood, 6 Pine Street, descale and eviscerate finfish under a hazard-control plan owner Phan Trieu called meticulous enough that Sr.

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Government · Board of Health

Health board votes to seek inspector, social worker

Littleton Board of Health votes to seek a full-time inspector and half-time social worker for fiscal 2028. Health Director Kelly Callo told the board the department runs on roughly 1.75 full-time equivalent staff for a town of about 10,500, well below federal and NACCHO benchmarks.

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