Food safety infosheet highlights:

– Authorities in Germany recommend to avoid eating sprouts; health advisories on raw lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumbers have been lifted.

– Even though testing of sprouts from the implicated farm have not shown the  outbreak strain,  epidemiology links the illnesses to eating sprouts.

– Raw sprouts have been linked to at least 55 outbreaks of foodborne illness since 1988.

– Illness associated with fresh sprouts can come from contaminated seed, water, soil or poor hygiene.

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