manure and salad crops

 No prizes for why I thought of this topic!

I'm reading 120 days gap between harvest and application of raw manure is
reasonably safe from an e coli point of view (from some US website or
other) do you concur?
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 "Mike.. . . ."  wrote

Don't think it matters, we wash all our salad and veg anyway, and the veg
gets cooked too. If the outbreak on the Continent is caused by cucumbers
from Spain the question that needs asking is were they washed and if not why
not. It's the lack of washing that is the real problem not just the
cucumbers IMO.

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Regards
Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 Following up to Bob Hobden


big "if" it seems! My money is on contamination in Hamburg by handling, so
it will be something else :-)
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 On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 10:09:43 +0100, "Mike.. .  .    ."


I'm not convinced that washing of raw salad vegetables in cold water s
sufficient to remove e.coli that may have contaminated them days
previously and soaked into the porous tissues.
Another reason to grow your own!

 Following up to Fuschia


its my own grown i'm worried about!
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