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Re: Bone Meal on vegetables

Wearing a mask may be good precaution around bonemeal, but what about its effect on the food grown with it?  Would you be able to pick up the disease from eating vegetables grown with bone meal additives?  (I just put some in my SQFT garden to balance the high nitrogen in my soil).
 I would appreciate any info on this question. Thank you.
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I don't have any special info on blood meal, but I doubt it is restricted to
the blood of any one species or even any one family of mammals.  Rendering
facilities do make meat meal, bone meal, and meat-and-bone meal, but there's
a lot of crossover in these products.  In other words, the slaughterhouses
don't separate the parts very carefully at all.  Meat-and-bone meal would
contain whole heads, tails, hooves, hair, et al.--in short, anything for
which a higher use can't be found.

At a minimum, and until we know more about the dangers involved, I would use
a mask when handling any animal-sourced protein product in the garden.

--Janet
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Janet Wintermute             jwintermute@ids2.idsonline.com
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