Changing Times in Boston The Impact of Economic Migration.
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Changing Times in Boston
The Impact of Economic Migration
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BostonTraditional and historic market town
Economy based on agriculture and
the food industry – Seasonal work &
low wages
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Millennium
• increase in economic migrants;
• Portuguese (>5,000)
• Gangmasters – exploitation
• Social unrest
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2005 onwards• Portuguese numbers decrease
• Influx of Eastern Europeans, initially Polish – followed by Lithuanian, Latvian and Russian
• Population continues to increase – estimates that up to 20,000 Eastern Europeans in the area!
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Impacts on the Borough• Language & cultural differences• Increase in HMOs• Illegal encampments• Social tensions• Strain on public services
Public Health• Return of bed bugs, cockroaches, cases
of T.B.
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Food SafetyInspections of 19 Eastern European Retail
Stores and Warehouses – Findings;• 7 Shops handling and slicing cooked meats• 3 of the above shops without proper wash hand
basins• 7 shops found to have high risk foods with expired
‘use by’ dates• 7 shops were not complying with temperature
requirements
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Food Safety • 9 shops had products of dubious origin • 6 shops had unmarked eggs• 5 had cleaning issues• All had a lack of knowledge/training of food safety• No food safety management systems• Concern regarding transport of high risk products
Trading Standards/HMRC Raids• 88 litres of counterfeit spirits (isopropyl)
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Formal Action
• Seizure/surrender of > £6,000
of meat products
• Closure of 1shop
• Prosecution of the owner of 2 shops
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Informal Action• Hygiene Rules produced
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Food Alert 2010Listeria Monocytogenes Found
in Polish Black Pudding Sausage
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2011 Improvements not sustained!
What Next?
‘System Thinking’
Eastern European Community Support Worker engagement
Social marketing
Review Hygiene Rules
Firm but fair approach
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The Future?
• Greater Integration
• Business development and diversification
• Better understanding and compliance with public health legislation
• Action by central government to assist areas like Boston affected by economic migration