On Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:37:42 GMT, Richard Periut >
wrote:

>Green onions by themselves need to be contaminated by some person,
>animal, or thing. Clear?

Never heard before that onions is grown without soil ?? Soil in itself
will provide enough C. botulinum spores to make any part of vegetables
growing in the soil or parts where soil may be splashed onto during
hard rain weather, to infect the plant with at least one spore. One
spore on the skin of the plant is enough to make a population of
living C. botulinum if conditions are there, like oxygen free
vegetable oil in room temperature.