The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning Monday for consumers to avoid alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts that were grown on a farm in Urbana, Ill., because of a suspected link to salmonella.
The agency said preliminary results of an investigation connect the Tiny Greens Organic Farm to a multistate outbreak of salmonella infections that started in November. But Tiny Greens owner Bill Bagby Jr. said that not a single sample of his product or facility that was taken by the FDA or the Illinois Department of Public Health has come back positive for salmonella contamination.
FDA spokeswoman Siobhan DeLancey said her agency has not yet produced a positive result from the nearly 200 samples taken from the Urbana business.
“But in this case,” she said, “we don’t need positive samples, because the epidemiological evidence is so strong.”
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