Re: Composting manure


"Farm1" <please@askifyouwannaknow> wrote in message
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The best sirte I could find was this one:
http://www.dmaonline.org/fppublic/connect73.html
Where the nearest comment to e. coli actually being "in the spinach",
is as follows:
Quote, "the FDA issued an advisory warning consumers throughout the
country not to eat any bagged spinach products. Frozen and canned
spinach were not affected by the advisory, because these products
receive processing treatment that would destroy bacteria. FDA
officials also noted that washing spinach would not be an effective
step in making it safe, because bacteria could get inside the leaves."
end quote.

While I'm quite skeptical of how E. Coli could remain a problem on the
inside of a plant even if it got there, this does say that washing wasn't an
effective treatment of the product in question because the bacteria could
get inside the leaves.


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