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Food recall of mung beans and alfalfa sprouts due to Ecoli contamination
There’s been another food recall of mung beans grown in Victoria Australia.
For the second time this month, mung beans and mung bean and alfalfa sprout mixes have been recalled due to E. coli contamination. The salad mixes were grown in two separate locations, one in Flowerdale north of Melbourne, and the other in Gippsland in Victoria’s south east.
Last year 46 people in Germany died from eating E. coli contaminated sprouts, however this is a different strain of the bacteria and considered unlikely to make people sick.
Principal Microbiologist with Foods Standard Australia New Zealand, Dr Duncan Craig says anyone with the recalled mung beans or alfalfa sprouts in their fridge would be advised to throw them out or return them to the store the items were purchased from.