Germany pinpoints source of E. coli outbreak
While you should still be careful about bean sprouts, it seems it is safe to go back to eating salads again.
Saturday, 11.06.2011.
16:13
While you should still be careful about bean sprouts, it seems it is safe to go back to eating salads again. Europe’s month-long E. coli scare left at least 33 people, nearly all German, dead and some 3,000 ill in 12 countries, costing farmers hundreds of millions of euros. Germany pinpoints source of E. coli outbreak Germany says one organic farm near Hamburg in Lower Saxony is the source. The farm, a specialist bean sprout producer, has been shut down. But not before a much-criticized investigation by the German government failed to pin down the source of the contamination. Initially Berlin pointed the finger at Spanish cucumber growers, a mistake that could cost them dear. “We’ll draw all the lessons learned from this crisis later. We recognized as soon as possible the error in identifying a specific product from one country, namely Spain, and we’re trying to correct this, “ said EU spokesman Eric Vincent. Germany’s hasty blaming of Spanish farmers went against EU food alert rules. Spanish cucumber growers say they lost EUR 225mn a week as a result. German growers say it cost them 60mn a week, the Dutch say 70mn. Other country’s farmers also saw their sales fall off a cliff as tomatoes and leafy salads were blamed as well. The EU has offered an aid package of EUR 210mn. In all, the crisis may cost half a billion euros.
Germany pinpoints source of E. coli outbreak
Germany says one organic farm near Hamburg in Lower Saxony is the source. The farm, a specialist bean sprout producer, has been shut down.But not before a much-criticized investigation by the German government failed to pin down the source of the contamination. Initially Berlin pointed the finger at Spanish cucumber growers, a mistake that could cost them dear.
“We’ll draw all the lessons learned from this crisis later. We recognized as soon as possible the error in identifying a specific product from one country, namely Spain, and we’re trying to correct this, “ said EU spokesman Eric Vincent.
Germany’s hasty blaming of Spanish farmers went against EU food alert rules. Spanish cucumber growers say they lost EUR 225mn a week as a result. German growers say it cost them 60mn a week, the Dutch say 70mn. Other country’s farmers also saw their sales fall off a cliff as tomatoes and leafy salads were blamed as well.
The EU has offered an aid package of EUR 210mn.
In all, the crisis may cost half a billion euros.
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