Guidance for Industry: Reducing Microbial Food Safety Hazards for Sprouted Seeds and Guidance for Industry: Sampling and Microbial Testing of Spent Irrigation Water During Sprout Production

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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is publishing two related guidance documents entitled ``Guidance for Industry: Reducing Microbial Food Safety Hazards for Sprouted Seeds'' and ``Guidance for Industry: Sampling and Microbial Testing of Spent Irrigation Water During Sprout Production.'' These guidances are intended to provide recommendations to suppliers of seed for sprouting and sprout producers about how to reduce microbial food safety hazards common to the production of raw sprouts to ensure that sprouts are not a cause of foodborne illness and to ensure that they comply with the food safety provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the act). The first guidance is based largely on recommendations from the National Advisory Committee for Microbiological Criteria for Food's report entitled ``Microbial Safety Evaluations and Recommendations on Sprouted Seeds'' (the 1999 NACMCF report) (Ref.1). The second guidance is intended to assist sprouters in implementing one of the principle recommendations (i.e., microbial testing) in the broader sprout guidance.