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  • From: BillOhio <billohio 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 15:13:56 -0400

Hi Courtney,
 
I'm thinking that being allowed to irrigate with the (untested, therefore not "proven" safe) water, will be coming under fire in the very near future, as well.
 
Bill Huhman
central Ohio

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:55 PM, courtney mcleod <sunmoonriver AT windstream.net> wrote:

I know this vendor in the article….get this crap…ODA says the reason for this is because the water could be contaminated!!!!!!!!!!!!  So….we are aloud to irrigate with the same water, drink the same water but not wash our produce with the same water!!!!!!!!!!!  Jackass’!

 

Courtney

Herb Thyme

Middlefield, Oh

 


From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of BillOhio
Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:24 AM
To: Market Farming
Subject: [Market-farming] Ohio market farmer cited for washing raw produce

 

Regards to the list,

 

This is posted on the Farmers Market Management Network, Inc. website

 

 

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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