Be cautious of the definition of organic food. I recall reading somewhere
that the definition of organic had to do with the number of weeks before
harvesting that the last of the pesticides was used on the product. I
vaguely recall that if no pesticides were used 3 weeks before harvesting
then it could be called "organic", but am not positive on these facts or the
sources. Unfortunately I can't find that reference. So, I hoping one of
the readers of this newsgroup can find a government-approved definition of
organic food as sold in grocery stores.


"Monkkey's Unkle" > wrote in message
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> Hi, gang,
>
> How can you be sure that organic food is really organic? What made me
> think of that is that recently I was in a supermarket and saw ginger root
> on sale for $2.50 per pound. A few days later, I was in a health food
> store where organic ginger root was on sale for $7.50 a pound. Since there
> was absolutely no difference in appearance between the two products, the
> realization hit me that it would be easy for some organized crime type to
> forge some paperwork and thereby trick a chain of health food stores into
> thinking that an ordinary vegetable was organic and walk away with a tidy
> sum for selling 30 tons of the stuff with a few minutes of work on a
> computer doing some creative forgery. The health food stores would then
> innocently sell the stuff to us fooling everyone into thinking that the
> inorganic food was actually organic.
>
> So, how can you really be sure that the organic food you are buying is
> really organic? Sometimes what you don't know CAN hurt you!
>
> --
> By gollie, I'll be a Monkkey's Unkle.