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  • From: "John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Fwd: FSMA [How it may affect many in this forum]
  • Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 19:58:01 -0000


Many of these pesticides such as picloram remain active in compost for many years Doug. No matter at what temperature the composting is done.
Most of these pesticides enter a place by buying in hay, silage or straw. You feed it to your animals and you compost the manure resulting for a year or longer and if you are unlucky enough your garden will not grow many vegetables for up to ten years after applying the compost.
The same can happen when you buy professionally made compost.
So I usually do a test by mixing said hay or straw or free manure with my own seed compost. Water well and put in tomato seeds with known germination rate. Incubate at fairly high temperature and watch the seedlings for a week or longer. Unfortunately that is not always possible. Many times you have to decide on a purchase at the speed of sound.
John

It might be handy for the manufacturers of herbicides which are
transmitted in manure; a pre-emptive strike.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada



On Sat, 23 Nov 2013 09:35:26 -0500, Lawrence London
<lfljvenaura@gmail.com> wrote:
How it may affect many in this forum:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FDA's own estimates show that the typical produce farm with less than
$250,000 in sales will spend 6% of sales to comply with these
proposed
regulations. FDA also acknowledges that the rules will significantly
reduce the number of new farms in the US, and discourage new food
businesses from opening. Unfortunately, the rules are unlikely to
result in comparable reductions in foodborne illness.**A US
Department
of Agriculture analysis concluded there was no evidence that
FSMA-like
food safety procedures actually prevent disease. It is no wonder
that
all the state departments of agriculture in the US have unanimously
called for FDA to dump the proposed rules and go back to the drawing
board.

In short, FSMA will dramatically change the way you use manure and
compost <http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/fsma-issues/#manure>,
irrigate your crops
<http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/fsma-issues/#water> and conserve
wildlife habitat
<http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/fsma-issues/#conservation>.
It’s
important that the FDA hear from farmers and others about the impacts
of
this legislation.

<snip>
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