Do I need to ask my dad to pressure-wash his bed with 10% bleach solution before hauling anything for a veggie garden in his truck now?

Disease? Odor?

Or just the ewwww factor of pig manure?

I hope the guy who's buying it to mix in with his other stuff labels it for landscaping use only, not for edible gardening.

Ninety days is a LOOONG time. Any nutrients in the manure will have long washed into the ground by then.

Stop falling for the paranoia being preached and stop worrying.

USDA NOP regulations state "The U.S. regulations for organic production require that raw animal manure must be composted unless it is applied to land used for a crop not intended for human consumption; or is incorporated into the soil not less than 120 days prior to the harvest of a product whose edible portion has direct contact with soil; or is incorporated into the soil not less than 90 days prior to the harvest of a product whose edible portion does not have direct contact with the soil surface or soil particles. See 7 CFR 205.203 (c)(1) and (2). "

U Maine says not to use pig manure:

The USDA regulations apply to manure - identifiable quantities of it - being applied to fields as the main fertilizer.

It's notable that the most likely source of contamination for the E. coli in spinach was either raccoons or wild boars, not anything the farmers directly did.

Hose out the truck and it'll be fine. No need to sterilize.

PS I just saw a bird poop in your garden! LOL

Ask him, see what he says.

Having said that, cleaning the box with a simple car wash soap solution would probably do the trick easily and I'd be comfortable with this and then hauling stuff for a garden.

Lloyd

I have had the 24hr flu more than a few times, at least I did in the past.

Now all these current parents or childless adults with their paranoid fear of getting something, anything, from dirt, or heck anything that has not been sterilized is moronic.

They go to doctors to get, or have their children, injected with diseases to "protect" them from diseases, but are incredibly ignorant that getting a mild case of most things naturally is the same thing they pay doctors for.

I had one flu shot, over thirty years ago, in my life and missed a week of work a week after I got it.
I have not had one since and have not been bed ridden with the flu since either.

I usually work in the garden barefoot, including when I put in animal manure but for some reason, unlike people I grew up with, I do not take any prescription medicine while every day they shovel down a handful.

The inmates are running the asylum.

"They go to doctors to get, or have their children, injected with diseases to "protect" them from diseases, but are incredibly ignorant that getting a mild case of most things naturally is the same thing they pay doctors for."

Are you one of those anti-immunization people? Ever had a mild case of diphtheria? Polio? Riiiight.

They took out my cousin's gall bladder to fix a pain they found out was caused by kidney stones.
He did not have the brains or guts to go after the doctor for unnecessary surgery (by the time a different doctor found out what was causing the pain, the other doctor had moved to a different town) but he still runs to the doctor continually with his attitude being half the illness. (He has admitted that half his problem are probably in his head but keeps doing the same bs.
Oh yes, for years he blamed many of his internal problems on his herniated esophagus. While they were looking at his insides to find what finally turned out to be kidney stones, he told the doctor that he had a heniated esophagus.
The doctor told him that had healed up nicely quite some time back.
He still blames some of his problem on it.)

The worst case of food poisoning I had, or may have been, was after I went to a well know rib place around here.
After eating the bread pudding before the ribs, I fairly rapidly lost my appetite, did not feel sick, just odd and not hungary, so I took the rest home and went to bed.

During the night I threw up, not dry heaves, heavily threw up till I guess I was empty, with the remaining coming out the other end.
After the last one I felt fine.
I nuked the ribs I took home in the micro-wave and ate them the next day.

I was told when I was very young, after my attending my first funeral; you start dying the day you are born, get used to it.
Life goes on.

I have had food poisoning (a couple times on vacation in Italy - ugh - as well as from eating in another person's home here in the US, turned out she had BBQed some questionable pork, and other times when I probably didn't even know what it was). I've also had swine flu - not something I would wish to repeat, or be responsible for giving to someone else (though I don't know if the flu virus is transmitted in manure, or how long it lives without a host - I think viruses are more fragile than bacteria).

I also believe it doesn't matter how MUCH of a certain pathogen is present, but just that it IS present, in some cases (some bacteria and someone with a compromised immune system). Since I'm growing for market, I just can't take the chance - though I will tell people that I followed the NOP 90/120 day rules in applying manure (in fact, no fresh manure at all, only composted) and let them make their own decisions (based on dr's advice if they have an immune disorder).