"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
...
> Naztazia > wrote:
>
>>I was ready to make ginger snap cookies this evening and a friend
>>tells me that most ginger is grown in China. I said get out of town.
>>So I call up McC spices and sure enough, their powdered ginger is
>>indeed grown in China. Apparently even "fresh" ginger in my grocery
>>store is too. To top it off, my friend said there was a big recall
>>back in July because of pesticides used on ginger products from China
>>(nausea, headaches, etc).
>
>>Am I being paranoid, or should I just go ahead and make the cookies.
>>I have nothing against China per se, just their food track record
>>isn't so hot...
>
> You are not being paranoid. Ginger is sometimes not safe. You can
> mitigate most (not all) of the risk by buying organic ginger.
>
> Steve

But Steve...look at the excerpt from this article:

"It wasn't clear how the contaminated batch got into the United States.
Christopher said he relied on his importer, Modern Trading Inc., to ensure
that the ginger was safe. An employee at Modern Trading, based in Los
Angeles County, said she assumed that Chinese authorities had tested it
before it was shipped overseas. The importer bought the ginger from Juxian
Modern Organic Ginger Co. of China."


The contaminated ginger came from an organic ginger company. If we can't
trust the Chinese, who can we trust?

{SMIRK}