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  • From: mark rousseau <mark.rousseau AT gmail.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Ohio market farmer cited for washing raw produce
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:10:45 -0500

So if it sprinkles the morning you pick them  - is that washed?

 Sorry the cynic in me is rolling his eye's at yet another ludicrous rule and it's application.



On Oct 29, 2009, at 12:06 PM, Marie Kamphefner wrote:

God help us all!

 

Marie in Missouri

 

 

 

which is "Working cooperatively to enhance Ohio farmers’ markets both large and small to create unity, consistency, and sustainability through collaboration and education."

Earlier this week it was brought to our attention that a vendor in Lake County [OHIO] was cited by the local board of health for selling “washed” vegetables and greens. The local health department official was enforcing a new interpretation of food safety rules that assumed washing greens with water was “food processing” and a farmer who was not a licensed “processor” washing them was making an “adulterated” (unsafe) product. The following article was brought to our attention: http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/alert-ohio-farm-food-and-health-alert/

 

I thought this was interesting and disturbing, to say the least. Could this be a taste of what is coming, with all the new regulations in the pipeline and a zillion new bureaucrats who are unfamiliar with any type of farming operation? I hope not!

 

Bill Huhman

central Ohio

Twitter: FarmerBillOhio

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