Alfafa sprout warning issued

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Alfafa sprout warning issued

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-04-27-alfalfa-sprouts_N.htm

By Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending consumers not eat raw alfalfa sprouts until further notice because the popular crunchy greens have been linked to a salmonella saintpaul outbreak in six states.

Officials believe infected seeds, sold nationwide, are the source of the outbreak. The warning does not include bean and other types of sprouts.

[Why Syzygy]

1. All the more reason to eat local. nt

[HamdenRice]

2. All the more to make them at home

There are certain things that are marketed to us that just don't make sense. Why don't they just make alfalfa seeds more readily available in supermarkets and let us make them at home?

[Why Syzygy]

3. I used to make them at home all the time.

Grocery stores are weird. In a two party country, we have 20 kinds of coffee and 35 brands of detergent. They also cater to local neighborhoods. If you request them, your grocer might carry them.