AdvertisementTests Contradict Early Suspicion About German Sprouts As E. Coli SourceJune 06, 2011Scott HensleyfacebookEmailGreenhouses of the shuttered Gaertnerhof Bienenbuettel organic farm in Bienenbuettel, Germany. Health authorities in the German state of Lower Saxony closed the farm over worries that the vegetable sprouts grown there could be a source of E. coli outbreak that has infected more than 2,300 people. But preliminary tests came back negative. (Getty Images)