I almost shared the headline. A trade site said scientists had found a way to slash Salmonella from microgreen seeds, in the same weeks a broccoli seed lot was making people sick in six states. So I read the USDA paper down to the charts, crop by crop. The washes did something real, and the part the headline skipped is the part growers need.
Every page on the first screen of Google says microgreens are the safe one. I spent a week inside the FDA's two open sprout investigations and a USDA lab study that grew both crops from the same contaminated seed, and the sentence that held up was shorter than that. The seed does not know what you plan to grow from it. What you do about that is the question this post answers.
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