FSA advises consumers to shun raw beansprouts

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.

FSA advises consumers to shun raw beansprouts

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.

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