http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/the-spinach-scare/ Featuring Vegetable Gardening Tips, Organic Growing Techniques, and Unique Plants for the Backyard Gardener Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:14:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/the-spinach-scare/#comment-2105 joanne daly Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:58:55 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/the-spinach-scare/#comment-2105 Hello We would like to start growing baby spinach. Living in Perth western australia we would like some advice into starting of. With suply of such things as baby spinach more and more becoming a "packaged product" the risk of such things as the spinach scare story has to increase. It realy is simple maths, you put a moist product into a closed environment, have poor or inturupted cold storage, or longer than "should be storage" and bingo you have a increased risk! Over the years I have had vegie gardens and even though I still cannot see a high advantage money wise; for the health of my family and myself the cost becomes less and less an issue a industry tries to control all! I am lucky in that Perth is so remote from the rest of the citys in the world we slip under the radar of many things. But most contamination of "fresh foods" is a result of human error and as quality becomes a continued reduced element of food production for the "normal" cost, we must take a good look at how big business see what "Mr and Mrs Normal" will accept as quality! My comments are not new or earth shattering, in fact show a hint of resignation to the "big Boys" and their products! Would just like a few good tips on growing spinach in my own back yard Hello
We would like to start growing baby spinach. Living in Perth western australia we would like some advice into starting of. With suply of such things as baby spinach more and more becoming a “packaged product” the risk of such things as the spinach scare story has to increase. It realy is simple maths, you put a moist product into a closed environment, have poor or inturupted cold storage, or longer than “should be storage” and bingo you have a increased risk! Over the years I have had vegie gardens and even though I still cannot see a high advantage money wise; for the health of my family and myself the cost becomes less and less an issue a industry tries to control all!
I am lucky in that Perth is so remote from the rest of the citys in the world we slip under the radar of many things. But most contamination of “fresh foods” is a result of human error and as quality becomes a continued reduced element of food production for the “normal” cost, we must take a good look at how big business see what “Mr and Mrs Normal” will accept as quality! My comments are not new or earth shattering, in fact show a hint of resignation to the “big Boys” and their products! Would just like a few good tips on growing spinach in my own back yard

]]> http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/the-spinach-scare/#comment-863 Ellen Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:39:12 +0000 http://www.veggiegardeningtips.com/the-spinach-scare/#comment-863 Excellent post! Excellent post!

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