Posted on 12/02/2005 11:10:55 AM PST by BurbankKarl
I don't even trust the 'pre-washed' label on salads, etc. I ALWAYS wash it!
and would you be kind enough to tell me how much Clorox you put in the rinse water?
Thanks, Doc.
If someone used infected human waste as fertilizer it would be present in the soil and rain or even wind could blow it up into the lettuce.
My mistake. I was thinking of something else. Now I'm wondering what it is.
Realistically, you are wrong on many levels. Hepatitis A is not a bacteria, it a virus. There is a difference.
Secondly, many people have had Hepatitis A and are completely unaware. It doesn't matter the state of ones immune system.
The article says it might be helpful to use a brush when you wash the lettuce. Good grief, I'm not about to start washing lettuce leaf-by-leaf because a handful of people got sick. We would all be Bubble-Boys if we succumbed to each and every one of these health scares!
I thought fetilizer went into the plant not on to it.
The "L" in BLT stands for Lettuce!
I suspect that the water used to irrigate these Mexican crops is not the best.
It's, ahem, "recycled".
>>Three people have died and more than 500 have been sickened by an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to a Chi-Chi s restaurant in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
Seems to me that if the E Coli is in the ground around the veggies, the E Coli could get "percolated" up into the veggies through their water intake. Lettuce, cucumbers, celery etc. are a LOT of water.
Fertilizer goes on the soil. It's normally applied before planting, and then during the season once or twice. Here in the U.S., there is no human waste used for fertilizing, with the exception of a field worker who doesn't want to trot (no pun) to the port-o-potty at the end of the row.
I'm with ya..... and I'm gonna lay off the store-bought and restaurant-provided lettuce from now until next growing season!
IIRC, those PGH events caused Chi-Chis to go belly-up nationwide.
It doesn't "percolate" up into the plant. If that were the case, we'd be dead long ago from the chicken manure that is often used to fertilize.
Fertilizer goes "on" the soil, but the rainwater dilutes it and takes it down INTO the soil, where it is absorbed by the plant through the roots. That's the whole concept of using fertilizer in the first place. It's not for the benefit of the dirt - it's to be absorbed by the plants.
I remember a 60 minutes story from several years ago concerning the water in the river that runs out of Baja California into the U.S. A study of that water found just about every deadly disease known to man.
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