Re: Botulism/packaged vegies

Diane Cooner (amani@wclynx.com)
Sat, 15 Aug 1998 09:59:16 -0700

As I understand it, the Feds want all sprout growers to treat their products
with up to 20,000 ppm of chlorine to eliminate possibility of e-coli. That
would make "organic" sprouts non-existent (unless you consider dousing your
food with pool water to be okay).
diane

Cecile Mills wrote:

> William Muraskin, Ph.D. wrote:
>
> >Is a similar
> >problem being courted by sprout producers/supermarkets and/or ziplock
> >bag manufacturers?
>
> The booth next to us at the Farmer's Market is the sprout and mushroom
> grower. She is being approached by Federal gov people, telling her her
> sprouts have tested for salmonella amongst other things and she feels they
> wish to shut her down.Another major sprout supplier near San Francisco has
> recently closed. She wasn't there today but I'll ask your questions next
> week and report back.
>
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