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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10389

31 May 2011
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/food safety
Russia bans vegetable imports

Brussels, 30/05/2011 (Agence Europe) - Russia has banned the import of German and Spanish vegetables and could extend the measure to all EU vegetables after 11 deaths in Germany thought to be caused by contaminated cucumbers from Spain, Russia's Chief Sanitary Inspector has announced (see EUROPE 10388). “We have given the order not to allow these imports to cross our border”, Gennadiy Onishchenko, who heads the Rospotrebnedazor, is quoted by the Interfax agency as saying. “If there is...

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