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  • From: Bill Shoemaker <wshoemak AT illinois.edu>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Ohio market farmer cited for washing raw produce
  • Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 13:16:49 -0500 (CDT)

The basic problem is ignorance. We've distanced ourselves so much from
nature, we don't know what it is unless Disney tells us.

Bill


> I know this vendor in the article....get this
> crap...ODA says the reason for this is because the
> water could be contaminated!!!!!!!!!!!! So....we
> are aloud to irrigate with the same water, drink the
> same water but not wash our produce with the same
> water!!!!!!!!!!! Jackass'!
>
>
>
> Courtney
>
> Herb Thyme
>
> Middlefield, Oh
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
> From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On
> Behalf Of BillOhio
> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2009 9:24 AM
> To: Market Farming
> Subject: [Market-farming] Ohio market farmer cited
> for washing raw produce
>
>
>
> Regards to the list,
>
>
>
> This is posted on the Farmers Market Management
> Network, Inc. website
>
>
>
> http://fmmn.org/2009/07/29/food-safety-at-ohio-farmers-markets/
>
>
>
> which is "Working cooperatively to enhance Ohio
> farmers' markets both large and small to create
> unity, consistency, and sustainability through
> collaboration and education."
>
> Earlier this week it was brought to our attention
> that a vendor in Lake County [OHIO] was cited by
> the local board of health for selling "washed"
> vegetables and greens. The local health department
> official was enforcing a new interpretation of
> food safety rules that assumed washing greens with
> water was "food processing" and a farmer who was
> not a licensed "processor" washing them was making
> an "adulterated" (unsafe) product. The following
> article was brought to our
> attention:
> http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/alert-ohio-farm-food-and-health-alert/
>
>
>
> I thought this was interesting and disturbing, to
> say the least. Could this be a taste of what is
> coming, with all the new regulations in the pipeline
> and a zillion new bureaucrats who are unfamiliar
> with any type of farming operation? I hope not!
>
>
>
> Bill Huhman
>
> central Ohio
>
> Twitter: FarmerBillOhio
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William H Shoemaker, UI-Crop Sciences
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