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55 sick. FDA is now looking at the seed.

Published about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Not a microgreens recall. But the thread they are pulling runs through every tray you sow.͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ ͏ ‌ 
Microgreens World - Weekly Digest for Growers, Researchers & Entrepreneurs
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Vol. 7  ·  No. 35  ·  Week of August 21 – 27, 2026  ·  microgreensworld.com
Top Story This Week
Food Safety
Fifty-five people across fifteen states, and the investigators have stopped looking at the packhouse
One line in the federal advisory turns this from somebody else's recall into your problem.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration  ·  24 August 2026
This Week's Stories
Growing Technique
One cheap thing in the water raised sunflower yield by more than half, and quietly took something away
Insolvency
A collapsed indoor farm is being sued a third time, and the unpaid invoices start well before it closed
Retail
A microgreens brand just landed shelf space at two of the biggest retailers in the country
Fraud Alert
A state agriculture department says the vendor ad in your feed answers emails within minutes
Also in this week's full issue: the question federal investigators are asking about seed suppliers, a review of fifty studies that ranks where contamination actually gets in, what turned up in the hearts of mice fed broccoli grown at thirty-eight degrees, potato microgreens measured for the first time, and the Saturday market that has run out of room.
Plus six action items pulled straight from this week's reporting.
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Hi! I'm D. Andrew Neves

 Editor-in-Chief, Microgreens World, “The Best Information: Tray Tested, Science Backed" Co-Founder of JPure Farms, an earlystartup indoor microgreens operation in Atlanta, Georgia Author of more than 10 books, including "Children of the Soil: How To Grow Nutritious Microgreens At Home in Nine Days" Founder and Managing Editor of MBS Publishing, "Science Writing for the Rest of Us"  Certified Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and over 35 years of writing and researching health and nutrition. Visit my website, Microgreens World, www.microgreensworld.com

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