Ken - Your first reference says to trim the mold off of peppers and go ahead and use them. Good news to me.... Hobby Farmer Ken wrote: > > someone, who didn't know any better, wrote ... > >> What we see is when the mold is at the reproductive stage. No big >> deal. Remember penicillin is a mold. Scrape it off an chow down.>> > > ... here's hoping that anyone following that advice has very good > MEDICAL INSURANCE. The truth is: scraping the fruiting bodies (fuzzy > stuff) off your food doesn't get rid of the toxins. Not all molds are > beneficial (like penicillin). Some penicillin-like molds are VERY > toxic. Some molds are DEADLY. For info on food safety check: > gopher://cesgopher.ag.uiuc.edu:70/00/Food-and-Nutrition/Food-Safety/Mold-in-and-on-Foods >>snip<<