All our seeds have been diligently spot tested for Salmonella and E-coli with special equipment. Every sack of seed has a 25 gram sample drawn and tested. While this is not a fool-proof guarantee, it has a 99% potential to catch contaminated seed. Since the salmonella scares of the late 1990’s, all the different players in the seed industry have set in place safeguards and sprouts today are arguably the safest fresh food in the marketplace. Keep in mind, there are 8 million cases of food borne poisoning in the USA each year.

In the sprout industry, there have been 1639 cases—-not in one year, but over the entire 40 year history of the commercial sprout industry.

In addition, it may be of some comfort to know that there has never been a case of salmonella from home-grown sprouts.