31 have been killed from sprouts infection in Germany
Germany has found the first direct link to the so called E. coli infection, which has killed 31 people in country, and has lifted the warning against eating raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce, “Bloomberg” reports. Germany says there is a high probability that sprouts have caused the illness.
The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said separately that E. coli bacteria of the aggressive O104 strain tied to the outbreak were detected for the first time on sprouts from a northern German farm.
“There is no signal any more that tomatoes, cucumbers and salad are responsible for the outbreak in North Germany,” Andreas Hensel, head of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, said at a news conference. “Now these products are not suspicious anymore. It’s healthy to eat them.”