[CH] botulism and other nasties....

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Hi there.  I've been a bit negligent with the chili plants I brought in for 
the winter.  Many ripe pods started to shrivel right on the plant, and are 
not attractive for fresh use!  I picked them all and am drying them, to be 
ground into powder, but I have started to wonder if during their (very) 
excessive over-ripening period, they may have become host to anything nasty.
Can anyone tell me if I'm making a deadly powder here? I am drying them VERY 
thoroughly at low temp in the oven.  Many are thin-walled chilies (super H, 
cayenne) and dried almost completely on the plant, but I also have some 
banana, hot-wax, chinese....

BTW: I made a delicious powder of all the chilies that got hit (and mushy!) 
by a cold frosy night.

Finally:  Is there anyone else here in Alberta, just out of curiousity?

Thanks all!  take care

Keegan

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