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Organic Produce, good or not?

i tried organic semi skimmed milk an it was luvly,
but this organic stuff is 25/30% more expensive,

Organic Food is not necessarily more expensive.

It IS more expensive if you buy it from a supermarket because they price it higher to differentiate it from thier base products.

If you buy organic from a farm shop its no more expensive than the ordinary stuff from sainsbury’s. People jsut assume supermarkets are cheaper and have forgotten how to shop locally.

EG. the eggs from our door are 90p a half dozen. Sure thats dearer than the cheapest in Sainsbury’s but is it really that expensive when you can actually see the source ? You know the chickens are totally organic and freerange. whereas the sainsbury’s free range are mearly caged birds that are outside.

And you will find genuinely organic freerange eggs taste totally different. We wouldn’t have weekly customers from 10 miles away if there was no difference. I wouldn’t advocate travelling that far for eggs but it sdoes show there is a real difference.

We have so many customers who say “how do you get them to taste so good”. We don’t, it just happens because are eggs are produced the same as they would ahve been 50 years ago. People have just forgotten what real food tasts like.

Organic fruit is better in that they tend to be the older varieties which have more taste and are resistance to natural bugs and desease. Modern strains of fruit are developed for high speed growning and strong skins so they don’t absorb the chemicals. Little is given to the development of taste.

Go for old varieties, organic if you like, and its a world apart from supermarket regular stuff and thier version of organic.

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The Produce Contamination Problem: Causes And Solutions $95.99 This book is organized into five sections beginning with an introduction in which the problem is described in terms of the number and size of produce related outbreaks the commodities involved and the human pathogens involved. The introduction also documents the failure of conventional sanitizing treatments to assure microbiological safety examining the problems of microbial attachment. The second section reviews methods of identifying a contamination source (epidemiology trace back strain identification location of Source) and then focuses on the various sources of microbial contamination (water manure airborne dust wildlife human activity) and where in the crop production sequence they might result in contamination. In the third section some of the commodities associated with major outbreaks (leafy vegetables tomatoes cantaloupes apples berries sprouts) are examined to determine what characteristics make them especially vulnerable to contamination. The fourth section then addresses means of avoiding produce contamination through use of Good Agricultural Practices and recommendations in FDA and industry guidance documents. Regulatory actions (recalls restrictions on imports) to safeguard the public from potentially hazardous products are described. Coverage includes policy and practices in the US Mexico and Central America Europe and Japan. The fifth section examines current technologies for reducing human pathogens in fresh produce including disinfection rapid methods for detecting contaminants irradiation gas-phase application and best practices acceptable to organic growers packers and processors. *Addresses foodborne contaminations from a prevention view providing pro-active solutions to the problems *Covers core sources of contamination and methodologies for identifying those sources *Includes best practice and regulatory information