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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Market-farming GAP
  • Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:33:42 -0400

While bagging surely exacerbates the problem, the problem didn't originate there. Safe handling of manure is critical. Sanitation among harvesters and handlers is also critical. Another example of how mega-farming broadens risk to greater numbers of consumers, whether conventional or organic.

Bill Shoemaker

Univ of Illinois

> > > It appears the problem is in bagging moist greens in airtight bags, an > obvious invitation to pathogen growth, rather than safe use of manure in > the field. > > paul tradingpost AT lobo.net > Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. > --Henry David Thoreau > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 9/15/2006 at 7:54 PM road's end farm wrote: > > >On Sep 15, 2006, at 1:58 PM, nancy a parker wrote: > > > >> > >> Will these rules apply to the Farm Market producers also? \Our market > >> just got in the WIC program so I assume certification will be required? > >> Nancy, Sulphur Hill Farm garden > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >The WIC program (I think you mean the FMNP coupons, which at least in > >New York are available both through WIC and to many senior citizens) is > >a different sort of thing entirely. As far as I know GAP certification > >isn't required for this, or for any farmer's market sales. > > > >I coordinate FMNP for our market, and am on New York's Ag and Market > >mailing list for this; so I think I would know if they were requiring > >it. I'll post on the list (after I bounce off the ceiling) if they tell > >me it's necessary. > > > >That said, wash your hands and test your produce wash water. It's a > >good idea. > > > >Sure wish I had some spinach to sell right now -- it would be a great > >chance for one version of the why-to-buy-locally-grown rap. Somebody > >somewhere in the mass market food system didn't wash their hands or > >didn't test the wash water and now there are people sick in eight > >states and the headlines are telling everybody not to eat bagged > >spinach. They don't know where the contaminated spinach came from, at > >least so far; only organic growers have to do audit trail. (Sigh.) > > > >-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly > >Fresh-market organic produce, small scale > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Market-farming mailing list > Market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming > >


William H. Shoemaker
Sr Research Specialist, Food Crops
St Charles Horticulture Research Center
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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