Dave Smith > wrote:

>Steve Pope wrote:

>> >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.

>Would organic ginger not include that which is fertilized with human or
>other excrement?

Yes, organic farming uses animal manure.

Only recently has human manure been used in the U.S., and then
only after lots of processing. I'm not sure if organic farmers
use it. It mostly goes on pasture.

Steve