More work on
other bacterial pathogens falling under the regulatory sanitation
guidelines, such as Salmonella sp., or other animal pathogens not
regularly monitored for regulatory purposes such as S. aureus,
and C. perfringens, is needed to confirm this hypothesis. Indeed,
thermophilic compost was shown to reduce a wide diversity of
pathogens, not only bacterial ones, and this has yet to be demonstrated
with vermicomposting where reductions have been shown
for bacteria, little studied for fungi and viruses and not satisfactory
for Helminth ova