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  • From: "Lion Kuntz" <lionkuntz AT email.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: market-farming Sprouts Linked to Deadly Infection
  • Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 23:04:43 +0800



E.Coli in the newslists again.
Every six months or so this cycle repeats. ABC is the source of the latest
"news". A report totally contradicting thousands of scientific investigations
is blaming sprouts for contaminating humans with a deadly animal parasitic
bacteria.

Although the United States Government Center for Disease Control finds 90% of
all E.Coli infections can be traced to infected beef cattle, dairy products
from infected dairy cattle, or secondary contaminations from their
contaminated feces, somebody is reporting that half or more of all food
poisoning in California is caused by non-host plants whom have no colon at
all.

The article reported by ABC is too skimpy to provide credible details, such
as by what pathways does e.coli take to get internally into alfalfa or clover
seeds.

1) See the original ABC article (link below),
2) Another ABC article from January 2001 finding e.coli in half of all cattle
and beef/dairy raw products (link below),
3) The CDC e.coli pages (link below),
4) EPA report on purifying your soil amendments by vermicomposting (link
below), and
5) Decontaminating your fresh raw edibles using Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide
(link below).

ABC has repeatedly attacked small agriculture, particularly "organic"
agriculture which is a very profitable segment of small agriculture, by
creating public fears of impending death by e.coli from small scale grower
products. ABC ran a 20-20 segment by John Stossel which had Dennis Avery
falsely claiming that the Center for Disease Control had found that up to 90%
of organic produce was contaminated with the deadly strain of e.coli
(H7:0157).

ABC and Dennis Avery have been permanently exposed as shills for large
agricorps. They have no credibility and their words are valueless.

Now, perhaps "The Annals of Internal Medicine" may be about to join them in
infamy and shame of false and fraudulent irresponsible reporting.

LINKS:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/abc/20010825/ts/sprouts010824_1.html
Sprouts Linked to Deadly Infection
By Jeff Carpenter ABCNEWS.com
A study in this week's Annals of Internal Medicine found that more than half
of confirmed food-borne illnesses in California were linked to alfalfa or
clover sprouts between 1996 and 1998
====
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/DailyNews/ecoli991110.html

New E. Coli Beef Danger
Deadly Bug Could Affect Half of U.S. Cattle
W A S H I N G T O N, Nov. 10 — A deadly strain of E. coli bacteria is far
more common in U.S. cattle than previously thought, and may be found in half
the animals that are made into ground beef, steaks and other cuts, a senior
U.S. Agriculture Department official said today.
====
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/escherichiacoli_g.htm

e.coli H&:0157 --
Clinical Features: Acute bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps with little or
no fever; usually lasts 1 week.
...
Transmission: Major source is ground beef; other sources include consumption
of unpasteurized milk and juice, sprouts, lettuce, and salami, and contact
with cattle.
====
http://fdt.net/~windle/refrence/nov99.htm

ACHIEVING PATHOGEN STABILIZATION USING VERMICOMPOSTING
...
Analytical results showed that all of the pathogen indicators in the test row
had a greater reduction than in the control row. EPA's required three- to
four-fold re-duction was achieved in all of the pathogen indicators within
144 hours. Fecal coliform, Salmonella sp. and enteric virus achieved the EPA
goal in 24 hours, 72 hours and 72 hours, respectively...
...After just 24 hours, the test row samples showed an average six-fold
reduction (98.70 percent) of fecal coliforms; the control row samples had a
less than one-fold average reduction (20 percent). Samples collected every 24
hours for 14 days showed that reductions continued in both the test and
control rows. However, the reductions in the test row were much greater and
quicker than those of the control. ...more...
====
http://www.inspiredmind.com/health/oxygen.html

Oxygen Therapies - Hydrogen Peroxide H2O2
There are many variations of H2O2, with highly diluted 35% Unadulterated
Food-grade Hydrogen Peroxide the one being of interest to us.

It was a farmer from the Tulbagh area about 2h outside Cape Town who pointed
H2O2 out to me, and his mentioning of the benefits made me listen up.

Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide

To make 3% Solution, mix 1 ounce of 35% H2O2 with 11 ounces of purified or
distilled water.
...
Sprouting Seeds:
Add 1 ounce 3% hydrogen peroxide to 1 pint of water and soak the seeds
overnight. Add the same amount of hydrogen peroxide each time you rinse the
seeds. Some people have reported 3/4 inch sprouts in 24 hours.

--------Original Message--------
From: marc AT aculink.net
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 13:08:40 -0600
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: [market-farming] Re: market-farming Sprouts Linked to Deadly
Infection

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