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 # sarama
 
 [![Go Reference](https://pkg.go.dev/badge/github.com/IBM/sarama.svg)](https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/IBM/sarama)
+[![OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/7996/badge)](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/7996)
 
 Sarama is an MIT-licensed Go client library for [Apache Kafka](https://kafka.apache.org/).