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Compost - Blood And Bone Meal To "Activate"?
Fran wrote:
"Pam - gardengal" wrote in message (snip) the American method of processing bone meal differs from the European in that it involves both heat and solvent treatments, effectively destroying any potential pathogens. The protection against BSE in your example is the fact that there is not yet any example of BSE having been found in the US. How the Blood and Bone is made in the US is irrelevant as there is no current treatment known to destroy the prions that cause BSE Just out of curiosity, what solvent is used? I count on my compost pile to kill off an awful lot of pathogens and assorted toxins. I'll reserve judgement for now, but I rather suspect that heat and solvents and the additional bacterial action and exposure to the elements during composting are probably enough to eliminate the risk of viable prions getting onto the food to something too low to calculate ... and too low to worry about. A hot compost pile followed by a year or two of aging may not be a panacea, but it comes mighty close. Bill -- Zone 5b (Detroit, MI) I operate my own mail server (Postfix on Mandrake Linux). The above address is filtered out and rejected. |
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