Bacteria killer, the sprouts of legumes the source of infection deadly
They are bean sprouts, but in Italy are known as "bean sprouts" and commonly used in salads. Possible contamination of seedsLONDON - According to official German sources the cause of the outbreak of E. coli is to be found in bean sprouts "mung" (see photo). In Italy we call them common, like others, 'bean sprouts', although not generated all from the same legume. This was announced by Reinhard Burger, director of the Robert Koch, who met in Berlin on Friday morning with members of the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety and the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment. The first track some of the bacterium in a possible vehicle of infection was found in the trash of a family whose members had contracted the infection. Among the waste was a packet of seed sprouts that were contaminated. The institute has however cleared cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce. The death toll from the outbreak of E.coli Friday rose to 33 (32 Germans and a Swede), a woman of 75 years died Friday morning in Lower Saxony, said the head of the Health of the Land. As a septuagenarian who died in the afternoon of Schleswig-Holstein (north) and a man of 81 years, who had been admitted to the University Hospital Eppendorf-Amburgo. (also in the north). In all there were about 3 thousand patients over five weeks.
LOCAL SALES - Determined, at least so it seems, the source of infection, it remains to understand why the production of these germohli has been contaminated. Alfredo Caprioli, Director of the Laboratory Institute of Health (European Reference Centre on the E. Coli). that the sprouts were responsible for the epidemic "was a very plausible even before the confirmation of Germany. This would explain why the disease has been so limited: it is very delicate seedlings sold are never too far from the production area. " Their delicacy also causes "are not grown in soil, but in tubs with water and nutrient salts, and at temperatures high enough. In practice, the same method that we use to grow bacteria in the laboratory: it is an ideal habitat. "
The expert of the National Research Council: "The company was organic, but are used to control chain" of M. Cruciani
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.corriere.it%2Fcronache%2F11_giugno_08%2Fgiallo-orologi-siciliani-avanti-sciacca_ccdc47aa-91ff-11e0-9b49-77b721022eeb.shtmlCONTAMINATED SEEDS - The bacteria can be killers came "from the water used for cultivation - says Caprioli - or from seed: it seems more likely the latter, given that water is typically treated and sterilized. It is the sole source that may be contaminated when it is still in the field and pass the bacteria in dormant phase, the seed. Then, once put under cultivation, the bacterium is reborn. So we must go back to the seeds, to look for these farms and figure out which crops reach the bacteria, because he can not shoot to grow the bacteria themselves, something must have infected him. "
CLOSED COMPANY - Meanwhile the company is closed for organic farming, to Gärtnerhof Bienenbüttel, a town in Lower Saxony, north-west of the country. The buds that would have caused the infection were produced here . All its products will be withdrawn from the market. But today's statement by health authorities we learn that this company is not the only source of infection. Would actually be "responsible" than half of registered cases of Escherichia coli in five regions of Germany. This suggests that there may be other companies that produced sprouts infected with bacteria and this would strengthen the hypothesis that the origin of the story there is a lot of contaminated seed. As Roe, the president of the National Order of biologists, Ermanno Calcatelli, is the idea that this could be a trail to follow: "The contamination could have occurred in the seeds come in contact with sewer water or fertilizer - says - Do not forget that the base composition is the presence of fertilizer and manure since the contamination occurred via faecal-oral route, this route may explain the source of the contamination of seeds. "
PERFORMED BY THE RESTAURANTS - The turning point came on the origin of the infection after three German institutes have linked separate samples of patients infected in 26 restaurants in the country. All 26 had received products from the local farm Bienenbuettel. "It was like being a thriller where you find the bad guy," said Helmut Tschiersky-Schoeneburg agency for the rights of consumers in Germany. "Those institutions that have carried out the analysis have also studied the menu and the ingredients of the restaurants," said the head of the German risk management, Andreas Hensel. "Then - he added - have examined the bills and took pictures of the dishes and then show all the sick people."
THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE EMBARGO RUSSIA - Russia, meanwhile, will lift the ban on vegetable imports from EU countries. This was announced by the European Commission president, Jose Barroso, the second day of EU-Russia summit in the city of Nizhny Novgorod. The blockade of imports had been decided in the wake of the outbreak of the bacteria-killer and was challenged by ' eu .
Online Health Editor
June 10, 2011
I wonder what 's behind this. Now they are tracing it down to an organic product .
Does'nt make sense to me .
Love ALways
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