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  • From: Terry Wereb <frosted-acres@sbcglobal.net>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Greywater chemistry
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 13:58:39 -0700 (PDT)

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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