Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Terry Wereb <frosted-acres@sbcglobal.net>]

PAt, that solmonella is a transfer-- from the cutting
board-- people do nor practice the sanitation you
would want in their kitchens-- they cut meat first,
they may rinse, but not didnfect, then cut salads on
the same cutting boards--- That has been repeatedly
=documented over the last 25 plus years!!! E. Coli is
poor handwashing practices before handling the food--
dont need togo any further on that-- just read the
signs in restaurant restrooms!!!

Terry

--- Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 31 May 2006 05:53:04 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> 
> >This whole thread has cracked me up.
> >
> >Of course you can use graywater for growing
> anything.
> >
> >Plants do not absorbe and are not hosts for any of
> the possible human 
> >disease causing organisms found in either graywater
> or humanure.
> >
> 
> Oh, really?  What accounts for the cases of
> salmonella and
> other food poisonings caused by vegetables and salad
> stuffs,
> then?
> 
> Would you be happy to eat lettuce that has been
> washed in
> water containing a large population of e-coli?  I
> wouldn't.
> 
> -----------
> >From the USDA (specifically, ATTRA):
> 
> Food safety also begins in the field, and should be
> of
> special concern, since a number of outbreaks of
> foodborne
> illnesses have been traced to contamination of
> produce in
> the field. Common-sense prevention measures include
> a number
> of don'ts (3):
> 
>     · Don't apply raw dairy or chicken manure or
> slurries to
> a field where a vegetable crop such as leafy lettuce
> is
> growing.
>     · Don't apply manure to an area immediately
> adjacent to
> a field nearing harvest maturity.
>     · Don't forget to clean equipment that has been
> used to
> apply manure to one field before moving it to
> another field
> in production.
>     · Don't irrigate with water from a farm pond
> used by
> livestock.
>     · Don't harvest fruit from the orchard floor for
> human
> consumption as whole fruit or nonpasteurized juices,
> especially if manure has been spread or animals
> allowed to
> graze.
>     · Don't accumulate harvested product in areas
> where
> birds roost.
> 
> 
> http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/postharvest.html
> 
> -------------------------------------------------
> 
> Pat
> -- 
> Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.  
> 
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