FSA advises consumers to shun raw beansprouts

26-Jun-2011 - Last updated on 28-Jun-2011 at 08:15 GMT

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The Food Standards Agency (FSA) is advising consumers not to eat raw sprouted seeds such as beansprouts, alfalfa and fenugreek, after an E.coli outbreak led to the hospitalisation of eight people in Bordeaux, France.

Following testing by French authorities, beansprouts showed contamination by the same strain of the bacteria that killed 44 people in Germany and left a further 3,700 ill.

The FSA said that that French research into the outbreak had suggested a possible link to sprouting seeds from a company based in the UK, although the agency said that no cases of food poisoning had yet been reported.

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Hybrid verses Organic.

Posted by Nicholas Scott Barker, 28 June 2011 - 19:25 GMT

With regard to seeds and grain used in producing fresh and processed foods, one must become aware of the dangers of consuming hybrid GMO foods. We were never meant to consume these Frankenstein, unnatural foods.

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Food or Seed?

Posted by Neville Merritt, 27 June 2011 - 13:22 GMT

Just wondering how many seed companies treat their seeds for sprouting as if it is a high care food product - which it is? Is this the provebial gap in the floorboards?

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