"Kathy" wrote in message
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Found this

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13913513

Even if the infection is on the seeds, would it be on the growing plant?
Seems suspicious that all the victims had eaten at the same place.


Does this remind you of the previous E. Coli outbreak in Germany?
Blame foreign suppliers to distract attention from your own country.
Later admit that perhaps it wasn't them and then blame somone else.
Meanwhile there is mass panic and people stop buying products which are
blameless.

I Googled to see if they had finally found the culprit(s) causing the
original German outbreak but I haven't found any recent articles about the
problem and certainly nothing which suggests that the source has been
tracked down.

All they have deduced is that statistical analysis strongly suggests that
salad vegetables were responsible.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/12/we...12organic.html has a good
report on the issue.
The article has interesting things to say about linkage with abnormally
heavy rainfall.
Also good advice about soaking raw vegetables in a dilute bleach solution -
my mother always used to soak salad in Milton and she was from a generation
where the food supply chain was much less regulated and reliable.

IMHO widespread infections suggest the source of the product may be
responsible.
Localised infections suggest the food chain much closer to the consumer.
So far these infections have been localised.
This hasn't stopped officials pointing the finger as far away from their
area as possible.

Cheers

Dave R
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No plan survives contact with the enemy.
[Not even bunny]

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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