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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10391

2 June 2011
GENERAL NEWS / (ae) eu/food safety
Eceh, Spanish cucumbers not to blame, questions remain

Brussels, 01/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - Spanish cucumbers were not responsible for infection of the food chain by the E.coli enterohaemorrhagic bacteria (Eceh) - STEC strain O104 at the origin of the haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) which on Wednesday 1st June had already killed 10 people in Europe: 9 in northern Germany (out of 1169 cases) and one in Sweden . During the evening of 31 May, the European Commission formally confirmed this information at the end of its Standing Committee on the...

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