RE: HACCP

Rebecca Kneen (rkneen@ramshorn.bc.ca)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:28:04 -0800

Hi - another thought about HACCP and Health Inspectors. Our local
Health Inspector, who has said to me that " organic people don't want
to use the proper chemicals to be sanitary." and "You guys [sic] are
all afraid of chlorine," wants us to chlorinate our well, use
anti-bacterial hand soap, and grow vegetables on our septic field. He
has also been responsible for approving "dry wells" (also known as
soap boxes - a pit filled with gravel with no field) in the shale
around our lake -- resulting in the contamination of the lake with
fecal coliform. The same coliform which makes him want our well
chlorinated.

That's right, it makes no sense. We are trying really hard to create
a safe and hygenic system, but I don't want to contaminate our well
or our land, nor do I want to create superbugs. How can we restore a
measure of common sense to our food system?

And what was the old line, "every child should eat a peck of dirt
before they are three"?

Rebecca
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