Re: [Hot Compost!]

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html "Over half of the chickens and turkeys examined in grocery stores in the USA in 1997 were contaminated with Campylobacter jejuni, and some 20% of the strains were resistant to flouroquinolone antibiotics.  These very antibiotics are given to chickens in their drinking water to prevent E. coli infection! [author's emphasis]  The Food and Drug Administration's approval oin 1995 of a flouroquinolone for use in poultry drinking water has provided an opportunity for resistance to develop to all antiobiotics of that class, which includes ciprofloxacin"
--Gregory G. Dimijian, MD quoted in Baylor Univ Med. Center Proceedings:12-3; pathogens and parasites
http://www.bhcs.com/proceedings/12_3/12>dimijian.htm

So as with chicken and turkey bought at the market, I would be careful to get that compost
killer hot, wash everything grown in it carefully, wash hands and tools.  I'm sure you all do, but maybe a reminder wouldn't hurt.
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