Posted on 04/23/2022 6:50:34 AM PDT by devane617
New research to be presented at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal (23-26 April), suggests that disease-causing amoebas that live on organic leafy vegetables can shelter human pathogens like Pseudomonas, Salmonella, and Helicobacter and are a potential risk to public health. The study is by Dr. Yolanda Moreno and colleagues from Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain.
Foodborne illness from consuming contaminated fresh produce is common and can have serious effects on human health, especially when eaten raw. There is a growing demand for organically grown fruit and vegetables as people strive to eat healthy diets and amid concerns over potential contamination from pesticides, chemical fertilizers and herbicides. However, during growth, harvest, transportation and further processing and handling, fresh produce can be contaminated with pathogens from human or animal sources, through contact with soil, irrigation water, air, rain, insects, and during industrial produce-washing.
Vegetables can become contaminated with certain protozoa (single-celled organisms) such as free-living amoebae (FLA), that feed on bacteria and can act as hosts to pathogenic bacteria (the so-called "Trojan horses") which resist FLA digestion and could be a threat to public health.
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Stop using Night Soil.
But ….. My Whole Foods arugula?
That’s what Organic means covered with disease-causing microbes ,LOL
during growth, harvest, transportation and further processing and handling, fresh produce can be contaminated with pathogens from human or animal sources
I'm not saying this is accurate or not but I do recognize weasel words. Sounds like someone wants to sell chemicals.
“But ….. My Whole Foods arugula?”
my thought exactly
leafy legs make the best toilet paper
You were Groomed to think Organic was Good and safe
Go ahead:
Keep trying to sterilize the environment.
In my book I label it a game of musical chairs.
I have my chair reserved; everyone else left standing? It won’t end well. mRNA may be accelerating this scenario; we may see the evidence within 18 months.
“Preliminary study finds organic vegetables contaminated with wide range of disease-causing microbes”
Correction:
Preliminary study finds that the people who eat organic vegetables are a bunch of disease-causing microbes.
Until there is serious discussion about disposable diapers-—
What are they made of?
What is the source of materials?
How many MILLIONS are put into landfills every single year? ETC...
I will not listen to one word about Fossil Fuels & CLIMATE CHANGE !!!!!
These entitled snowflakes would have a complete meltdown if they had to actually WASH & REUSE diapers.
Migrants crapping in the fields. That is why you never eat the salad in Turkey.
Show me INORGANIC FOOD
I avoid the organic fruits/vegetables section in Safeway like the plague.
Eating organics is just stupid. You paying premium to get inferior product, contaminated with all kind of stuff.
There is a lot of science in the non-organics food.
Organics people are science denials!!!
I assume all produce is “dirty”.
Do people not wash their fruits and vegetables before eating?
Wash your hands after using the bathroom and don't use the field as your bathroom. Keep the equipment clean.
I think Ramen Noodles might qualify...
:)
suggested we use reusable diapers to the wife when the kids ere little to help save money.....yeah, that didn’t go well.
Hey, at least it costs more. Wait, what? ;^)
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