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To: hedgetrimmer
"A tenth of the world’s irrigated crops - everything from lettuce and tomatoes to mangoes and coconuts - are watered by sewage."

Just a note, pathogenic bacteria do not travel up the plants vascular system to the edible portions. The odds of contamination of mangoes and coconuts from contaminated irrigation water is nearly non-existent, assuming the contaminated water were not directly applied to the fruit, and even then, given the nature of a coconut highly doubtfully.

Lettuce is another matter, it is routinely "sprinkled" with ditch water on the way to market to keep it from wilting.
32 posted on 01/29/2006 9:48:04 AM PST by ndt
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To: ndt

Strawberries can be contaminated too.


33 posted on 01/29/2006 10:03:04 AM PST by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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To: ndt
it is routinely "sprinkled" with ditch water on the way to market to keep it from wilting.

It also depends on where they get the water to make the ice they use to cool it with.
34 posted on 01/29/2006 10:03:40 AM PST by hedgetrimmer ("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
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