Hi, everyone. I am posting Greta's comments to this discussion thread: ********************************************************************************* There's a lot of concern about food safety - where it's from and how it's handled. We hear a lot about cross-contamination and bad processing, but take lettuce, for example. In North Carolina, health department officials have told me they have debated for years about whether or not to categorize lettuce as a "dangerous" food. It can kill you. It almost put my own mother six feet under.
I strongly encourage you, whether you've been sick or not, to visit www.safetables.org. The Chicago-based organization, Safe Tables Our Priority, is the premier resource for helping food-borne illness victims. In North Carolina, some farmers market vendors have asked for a certification process whereby they would receive training on food safety. As long as you're considering rules and regs regarding organically grown food, please consider instituting food safety classes. Thank you. Greta Lint - [email protected] - Asheboro, NC ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Lao Tzu “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” - Winston Churchill "There are seven sins in the world: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice and politics without principle." - Mahatma Gandhi ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://list.communitygarden.org/pipermail/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org/attachments/20090226/81ea2edb/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ The American Community Gardening Association listserve is only one of ACGA's services to community gardeners. To learn more about the ACGA and to find out how to join, please go to http://www.communitygarden.org To post an e-mail to the list: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your subscription: http://list.communitygarden.org/mailman/listinfo/community_garden_list.communitygarden.org
