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ME 3MBERS OF North Vancouver District council

“are at-odds over the recent change in bulk food’

*“yegulations ° implemented by .the North Shore
Union: Board - of ‘Health (NSUBH), with some

-. council mernbers: hinting owners of the Save-On

Foods complex on Marine .Drive have received

‘officials.

Following receipt of a”

, | By JOANNE MACDONA |

report explaining how the

guidelines were forraulated:

froin'the Board's Tr. W.E.
MacBean, Ald. Joan Gadsby
*told Council Monday -— ata

meeting also attended by~

“representatives of Safeway
and Super, Valu —- she is
concerned over the ‘fairness
and equitableness’’ with
which the new guidelines
were established, saying the
new regulations discriminate

: preferential treatment from senior government

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against small bulk food op-
.erators and other established
chains.

© She said when Save-On-
Foods approached the’ North
Shore Union Board of
Heaith in November, 1984,
with ‘a request to relax the

existing bulk food regula-

tions, plans to outfit the
siore with facilities to handle

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400 bulk food ‘items were
already in place.
Save-On-Foods were rely-
ing ‘‘very strongly’? on a
change in the regulations,
said Gadsby, adding there
was nu way the company
could handle 400 bulk food

items without relaxed regu-

lations.

Gadsby said with the
change in regulations occurr-
ing in time for the January
opening of the store, Save-
On-Foods received an ‘‘un-
fair competitive edge’’ over
other retailers who were nat
prepared for the sudden
change in regulations.

Gadsby also questioned

why a. letter signed by
NSUBH chairman Rod

“Clark, which outlined

modifications in the bulk»

food regulations. announced
in April,’ 1984, was’ dated
simply January, 1985, ‘with
no specific date shown on
the letter. According to the
letier, the modifications now
allow for customer se!f-ser-
vice, provided operators
provide adequate floor
supervision of the products.

Gadsby added she was
also concerned the Board's

“backup guidelines’’.: were .
&

laid out by January 14, two
days before the Board’s reg-
ular monthly mecting sched-
uled for January 16.

Ald: Ernie Crist was most
critical of the new regula-
tions, saying he felt’ the
NSUBH- succumbed to
pressure from senior gov-

ernment officials, adding he
was “sorry that Murray
Dykeman acceded to the
pressure.”’

Following Crist's com-,

ments’ Ald. Dykeman, the-

immediate past chairman. of
the NSUBH, told Council
that the November meeting
of Save-On-Foods _ repre-
sentatives had been on the
earliest possible date.

Dykeman said he felt the
Ministry of Health provided
a ‘rather prompt response”’

to the NSUBH queries about

the guidelines, saying he was
satisfied with the North
Shore guidelines which now
conform to. simifar
guidelines throughout the
country.

A motion by Crist that the

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NSUBH revert to the former
bulk food regulations was
defeated but council did pass
a resolution — by a 4-3
margin — that the NSUBH
be informed council was
concerned about the timing
and the manner of informing
bulk food operators about
the new regulations.

Council also moved to ask
the NSUBH to continue
monitoring the bulk food
situation, with a report to be
included in’ the Board's
quarterly report.

A motion by Ald. Craig
Clark that. Council concur
with the changes in the regu-
lations was defeated 4-3,
with Ald. Mary Segal,
Gadsby, Crist and Mayor
Marilyn Baker opposed.