02-09-2012, 09:43 AM
CTHAR has safe field techniques for produce, & they caution to minimize any contamination potentials, visually inspecting all produce, not utilizing produce (it seems all) that may have contamination, rinsing all produce & utilizing one of the water sanitation products (listed in this pdf) and always rinsing all produce.
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/FST-39.pdf
Their main point was not utilizing any produce that looked like it may have had vectors....does your neighbors produce look like it has vectors (chomp holes & such), if so, reject eating it. If it looks good, CTHAR recommends RINSING & RUBBING all produce, to make sure no pathogen caring organism is on your produce. (the pdf has more that just the lungworm to worry about....
OH, & just to mess up a good thing, south Florida has had GALS introduced, and last fall there was a lot of coverage & their Dept. of Ag is working on the disease potential for their produce....
On this issue, best management practices & vigilance seem to be the key.... Many times my neighbors offer produce, I will often explain that there is just me to eat the produce, if they still offer, I accept....and what I do with the gift of produce is up to me then.
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/oc/freepubs/pdf/FST-39.pdf
Their main point was not utilizing any produce that looked like it may have had vectors....does your neighbors produce look like it has vectors (chomp holes & such), if so, reject eating it. If it looks good, CTHAR recommends RINSING & RUBBING all produce, to make sure no pathogen caring organism is on your produce. (the pdf has more that just the lungworm to worry about....
OH, & just to mess up a good thing, south Florida has had GALS introduced, and last fall there was a lot of coverage & their Dept. of Ag is working on the disease potential for their produce....
On this issue, best management practices & vigilance seem to be the key.... Many times my neighbors offer produce, I will often explain that there is just me to eat the produce, if they still offer, I accept....and what I do with the gift of produce is up to me then.