Food-borne Illness

Consumers advised of risks associated with eating raw and lightly cooked sprouts

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, November 5th, 2002

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is updating its health advisory on the risks associated with eating all raw sprouts because of a recent Escherichia coli O157:H7 outbreak associated with alfalfa sprouts.

This advisory is also being updated to specifically include raw and lightly cooked mung bean sprouts. Since FDA issued its original health advisory on sprouts in 1999, there have been several reported food-borne illness outbreaks associated with sprouts. People in high-risk categories (i.e., children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised) should not eat raw or lightly cooked sprouts.

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Source: TB and Outbreaks Week (2002-11-05)

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