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Re: "Miracle-Gro" and urine - a warning

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Just a follow up here---the public health people I spoke said hepatitis is
destroyed in composting....and absent in healthy people.

Composting is thus a failsafe way of converting urine into plant food.

Note that you should add it at the beginning of a batch process, then allow
everything to 'cook down', *without* further additions, in order to achieve
the failsafe conditions.

Frank Teuton
-----Original Message-----
From: B.Scott@OPENMAIL1.UEDN84.sukepabe.simis.com
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To: fteuton@total.net <fteuton@total.net>
Cc: cjb@yup.com <cjb@yup.com>; sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 4:43 AM
Subject: "Miracle-Gro" and urine - a warning


>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
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>All,
>
>
>A couple of comments on this thread.
>
>I have used urine to keep cats out of the garden.  Water it around the
>perimeter of the garden (your territory) and it seems to work keeping
>them out.  Lead poisoning also works on them . . . I'm told.
>
>I also use urine occasionally on the compost heap.  Seems to speed
>things up.  Next door's dogs wee all over the lawn, and that comes up a
>lovely dark green colour - lawn not dog.
>
>
>   **   HOWEVER JUST A WORD OF WARNING   **
>
>
>A couple of years ago there was a small outbreak of hepatitis in
>Britain.  It was eventually traced back to strawberries grown in one of
>the Mediterranean countries.  There they had used human urine as a sort
>of fertilizer.  It had not been washed off by watering or whatever.  In
>short into the food chain and bang two dozen or so people in real bad
>shape in hospital.
>
>As someone who has had hepatitis and been off work for six months as a
>consequence, I tend to be sensitive to this sort of thing . . .
>
>Message: Basic cleanliness - wash your hands after using the toilet and
>so on should be born in mind when using this stuff.
>
>Sterile?  Doubt it somehow.
>
>
>BTW - incubation time for hepatitis is 90 days - keep a diary if you wan
>to know where you were when you were infected.
>
>
>Regards
>
>
>Brian
>
>
>
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