Germany Lifts Food Warning for Cucumbers, Tomatoes, Lettuce

Germany lifted a warning against eating raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce after concluding tainted sprouts caused an E. coli infection that has killed 31 people, as the first direct link to the illness was found.

Based on interviews with restaurant patrons and cooks and a review of food deliveries, there’s a “high probability” sprouts were the cause, Reinhard Burger, head of the Robert Koch Institute, said in Berlin today. The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia said separately that E. coli bacteria of the aggressive O104 strain tied to the outbreak were detected for the first time on sprouts from a northern German farm.

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Source: Bloomberg News