You will need to be accredited if you intend to commercially produce or supply seed sprouts. Seed sprouts are young seedlings which may be grown from alfalfa, broccoli, clover, onion, radish, sunflower seeds or other seeds, mung beans or other beans, and snow peas or other peas.
Commercial primary production includes supplying seed sprouts to food businesses or other seed sprout businesses, and it involves doing any of the following activities:
- decontaminating seed or seed sprouts
- soaking seed
- germinating or growing seed
- harvesting seed sprouts
- washing, drying or packing seed sprouts.
