FDA: interim advisory on alfalfa sprouts

BETHESDA, MD (FDA) - The Food and Drug Administration is
reaffirming health advisories that persons who are at high risk
for severe foodborne disease should avoid eating raw alfalfa
sprouts.  This reaffirmation is an interim measure until such
time as intervention methods are in place to improve the safety
of these products.  Persons at high risk include children, the
elderly, and persons with compromised immune systems.  Similar
advice was given by the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) after reporting outbreaks of E. Coli O157:H7 in
its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) publication in
August 1997.

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