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  • From: "marc" <marc AT aculink.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Why I can't believe a word out of Dennis Avery's mouth
  • Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:44:10 -0700

http://www.organicconsumers.org/irrad/contaminatedlettuce.cfm

Excerpt:


"OCA Comment: Lettuce cannot be irradiated.

Lettuce Takes Up E. Coli, Defeating Normal Cleaning
Lettuce that has been fertilized with manure or irrigated with water
contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 can take the bacteria up through its root
system and internalize it inside its leaves, resisting traditional external
sanitizing methods.

Researchers from Rutgers University report these findings in the January
2002
issue of the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology."



----- Original Message -----
From: "Del Williams" <delannw AT dlogue.net>
To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Why I can't believe a word out of Dennis
Avery's mouth


> Thank you Dorene...
>
> I was considering shipping my Dennis Avery/Hudson Institute files to Rick
W.
> I did a lot of research on them a couple years ago and also on the 20/20
> allegations. I think I posted them on this list but it might have been
> another one I belonged to at the time.
>
> Was it Lucy Goodman's list? Hmmm.
>
> What I recall is that Avery focused on only part of the e coli data in the
> years he was reviewing... organic lettuce is what he targeted. What he
> overlooked entirely and what should have been of greater concern is that
> most of the e coli problems IDed by the CDC were related to
> institutionalized health care and child care. The contaminated lettuce
was
> never clearly linked to growing practices as I recall. Handling during
> picking and processing was the most likely cause.
>
> If I get some free time later I might go find that box of data.
>
> Del Williams
>
>
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