Austria takes Spanish cucumbers off shelves
Austria said Sunday it has taken Spanish cucumbers off the shelves of some 30 stores amid an outbreak of bacteria poisoning blamed for 10 deaths in neighbouring Germany.The AGES health agency said 33 Austrian stores had received deliveries of vegetables sourced from Spanish distributors suspected of having exported products contaminated with enterohaemorrhagic E.
Germany has been rebuked for making wild claims linking a deadly E. coli outbreak to Spanish cucumbers as British taxpayers yesterday faced a £17 million bill to compensate EU salad farmers hit by the crisis.