FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 57, 4 September 1926, Page 7

FRUIT AND VEGETABLES.

In the majority of fruits and vegetables, the coll death is not very rapid if we exclude watercress, lettuce, mustard cress, and spinach. It must be borne in mind that as vegetables grow below or close to the surface of manured ground, this class of foodstuff is invariably. contaminated at its source to some degree. The.storage of fruit mid vegetables on stages or containers / tsido shopfronts allows of contaminauon of these foodstuffs by allowing the deposition of street dust to form thereon. Again, there is probable pollution by, dogs. At night these stages and ' containers are taken within the shop j carrying a regular supply of material, capable of infecting quite a number of fruits or vegetables if stored in that vicinity before any serious cleansing is undertaken. Lettuce, watercress, and spinach should be transported in light boxes, free from the pressure of other vegetables. The handling and storage of fruit and vegetables in market rooms leaves room for great improvement. Water used for washing vegetables for the market should be of potable quality. Watercress should only be culled from an approved source.