Re: [compost_tea] Re: 131 degrees Farenheit heated compost for 3 days

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:42:36 EST

Have tried over and over to get this point through to the panel. The problem
comes down to scare tactics being used. No data to show that a problem
exists, but the possibility that maube somehow a pathogen could slip thorugh are
being used to scare people.

I keep pointing out that they have more likelihood of consuming pathogens by
touching a door handle, but they don't do anything to prevent that danger.
Obviously, we should put regs on being able to touch door handles, right? After
all, people may not wash their hands before eating a food raw after touching
a door handle. That's the argument being made now - that applying compost tea
that might havea some pathogens growing in it to raw food could result in
food bourne illness. There is no data to show that this has ever happened with
compost tea. I think they (the fear-mongers in the group) have to demonstrate
that could actually happen before we succumb to the fear factor.

Elaine
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
www.soilfoodweb.com
SFI Oregon, USA
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"Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well,
but the conviction that what we are doing makes sense, no matter how things
turn out." -- Vaclav Havel, former President of the Czech Republic





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