And although the FDA went so far as to recommend that all commercially grown sprouts be produced from seed that has been sanitized with 20,000 ppm chlorine, no sanitizer has yet been found to be reliable at eliminating pathogens from seed without destroying germination.
So Why Not Just Decontaminate the Seed?Ī great majority of the research on alleviating sprout related outbreaks has focused on decontaminating the seed. The process of sprouting allows nearly ideal conditions of food, moisture, and warmth in which a single pathogen cell can proliferate into over one hundred thousand pathogen cells. The suspected scenario in historical outbreaks of illness tied to sprouts is that the seed is contaminated in the field by manure used as fertilizer, or by grazing animals, or in silos or bins by bird or mouse droppings and urine. The Source of Contaminated Sprouts is Contaminated Seed The ISS Seed Screening Program has already prevented several lots of contaminated seed from being used in commercial sprout production. Dozens of researchers and food safety experts.Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.National Center for Food Safety and Technology.The Center for Science in the Public interest.South Australian Research and Development Institute.United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).International Specialty Supply developed a method of screening sprouting seed for human pathogens that has been confirmed, referenced or recommended as necessary by top food safety regulatory agencies and experts, including:
“In almost all cases, contaminated seed was the source of the contaminated sprouts both for Salmonella sp.
Over the last decade commercially produced sprouts have been implicated in outbreaks involving thousands of people. ISS Seed Screening for Human Pathogen Testing
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