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Water Microbiota from a Commercial Alfalfa Sprout Crop over 4 Days of Growth
Elizabeth Reed1, Robert Sanderson2, Barbara Sanderson2
1Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, College Park, Maryland, USA elizabeth.reed@fda.hhs.gov.
Abstract:
Sprouts have been implicated in numerous foodborne illness outbreaks. To better understand baseline microbial profiles of irrigation water and subsequent spent irrigation water of alfalfa sprouts, DNA from water was extracted, sequenced, and annotated with CosmosID and a custom pipeline to provide bacterial, fungal, protist, and antimicrobial resistance gene profiles.

