I don't know if this is true. If so how terrible.
I am aware that USDA now mandates that all almonds must be  pasturized 
before going to market. They did this because there were a few  cases where 
folks got sick from almonds that had some type of bacteria in  them.
 
 
In a message dated 12/23/2011 11:00:47 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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On  12/23/2011 09:39 AM, Don Wiss wrote:

>
> Through my food coop  I ordered a pound of Ceylon cinnamon. It was the
> third one on this  page:
>  http://www.frontiercoop.com/products.php?ct=spicesaz&cn=Cinnamon+Powder
>
I wish.

But I've read somewhere that all spices imported into the  U.S.A. must by 
law be nuked with hard radiation.
Is this  true?

William