Dr. Mercola May 06 2008 57,800 views
I have been using ozone for years on fruit meats and veggies. I even use ozone on organic because organic food growers are allowed by law to use choline to wash there food. Some ozone units do not put out enought ozone to do the job properly, you need to find out the ozone output and the amount of time you soak your food. I work with the Pan American group of the International Ozone assoc. on the agri. food tack force and this is the group along with E.P.R.I. got this process approved by the F.D.A. So do some homework before you buy, and learn about all the ways ozone can help in your life. Jerry Earth Safe Ozone
With all the negative reports on the Ozone sanitizer, I would like to offer this recipe for veg wash.
FRUIT AND VEG WASH
1 c water
1 c vinegar
1 T baking soda
20 drops grapefruit seed extract
Mix it up. It will foam/expand but will stop. Pour in a spray bottle and use.
If you look on the commercial 'washes', they are similar but with other ingredients/chemicals. This is a better alternative and cheaper!!
with all due respect
these infectious microbes are from FECAL material. That's right, crapping in our own food supply. Quit mincing around it and call it what it is.
Makes no difference if it's organic or not, if it has crap on it.
These problems were virtually nonexistent when people raised their own food because they didn't smear crap on their own food supply. These industrial people DON'T CARE.
Washing it with plain water does remove a lot of the crap. Washing with a bit of soap does even better. Of course that doesn't guarantee anything. Just reduces the numbers of critters.
Interestingly, with meats, the traditional high salt, sugar marinades (BBQ, Teriyaki) will kill and inhibit crappy critters.
You are right, unknown to most people the solid waste that remains once our 'waste' has made it to the sewage treatment plant is transported to industrial farms to be used to as a fertilizer.
I hope no one has forgotten
that ALMONDS are irridated
but can still be labeled as
RAW ! It makes me so sad to
see our food being messed
with and there doesn't seem
to be a perceptable outcry
in the mainstream of society.
If we don't buy it they won't sell it !
There is evidence that shows that eating microbes is healthy for us...we all have heard of probiotics, but what about all the other junk that comes along with it now. There is also evidence that shows that the probiotic bacteria are a million times less in the soil than just 60 years ago. It seems plausible then that using Dr Mercola's method of cleaning and washing produce and meats is excellent, as long as you supplement with a good probiotic formula. Our bodies need the probiotic microbes!!!
Remember to buy from farmers who have been farming organic for years...before it was a 'money' industry bandwagon.
I went to amazon.com to check out the Lotus Sanitizer that Dr. Mercola talked about. The negative reviews bring up some very interesting questions about this unit, such as whether or not there is airborne ozone being generated (not good) and how much power is being consumed by the unit. Also, Sharper Image, the original purveyor of this item, is struggling as I read that the company is in Chapter 11; I don't know if that would affect distribution or not. At any rate amazon.com and their fabulous customer sevice dept would undoubtedly make it right. I think it would be better to grow your own produce whenever possible, and eschew items that have traveled hundreds of miles from exotic locations (like bananas) or else find local sources of produce. That would reduce the carbon footprint of eating, support the local farming base AND not make it necessary to purchase an item like this that requires you plug it into the wall and consume even more precious electricity.
Please read my comments after any negative review. You will find that there is a reasonable explaination why they were having problems.