Bureaucrats attack farmers' markets: Vendor cited, fined for washing his vegetables

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limitgov Posted: Fri, Nov 6 2009 1:41 PM

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http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/alert-ohio-farm-food-and-health-alert/

The Ohio Department of Health/Department of Agriculture has issued a Notice of Violation to a farmer at a farmers market in Lake County on 7/8/09.

According to the notice, it is a violation to offer cleaned and rinsed “lettuce and mixed greens” in a package at a farmers market. It must be sold dirty, the notice says.

This is due to new rules and the definition of “food processing”. Since the lettuce was cleaned and rinsed with water, the food is defined as “adulterated” because the person doing so is an unlicensed “processor”.

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Daniel replied on Fri, Nov 6 2009 3:33 PM

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All the farmer had to do was throw the lettuce on the ground then give to the customer. Lol.