Source appears to be a factory in Lower Saxony
Sprouts from a production facility in the district of Uelzen (Lower Saxony) are, according to Lower Saxony's agriculture minister Gert Lindemann (CDU) is a recognizable source of EHEC epidemic. When an employee therefore an EHEC infection was detected, another staff member was also suffering from diarrhea.
However, the minister said: ". We can not recognize that the farmer with a fault in the development of" some sprout mixtures of the operation thus imports from abroad.
The conclusions drawn from 19 different types of seed sprouts have been supplied to restaurants and bars as well as health food shops and weekly markets. According to initial findings, but they were not included in other retail outlets.
In the press conference as Minister of the product among others, the suspected "Sprossfit mild blend ', and it contains sprouts from alfalfa, fenugreek, mung beans, lentils, adzuki beans.
The sprouts were supplied directly or through intermediaries of restaurants in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Hesse and Lower Saxony - the spreading area of the intestinal disease!
The operation of the district Uelzen is closed since Sunday, the product was recalled.
Nor the EHEC pathogens in sprouts is not established, however, in the laboratory. So far, the study results are based solely on the trade routes.
Nevertheless, it was certain that a "very strong track down the source of infection" had. "The sequence of events shows very, very strongly that the rungs of a very, very likely to be a clear source of the pathogen," said Lindemann.
The first six major outbreaks of EHEC pathogen can be, according to the Lower Saxony State Office for Consumer Protection (LAVES) supplies the manufacturer shoot back.
According to the Office three canteens in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia and three catering establishments in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, intermediaries from the nursery in Bienenbüttel district Uelzen were supplied.
The Ministry recommends to refrain currently on the consumption of sprouts. It can not be excluded that the contaminated with EHEC pathogens goods had already been fully processed and sold.
The manager of the establishment concerned, Klaus Verbeck said the "New Osnabruecker Zeitung" that he could make no sense to the allegations against its products. The salad bars would grow only from seed and water and were not fertilized at all. In other divisions of the court will not use animal manure, not even horn meal, Verbeck said the newspaper.
Both samples were investigated in the past two weeks on your own behalf, as well as studies of the food control had been no EHEC strain result of its products. According to Lindemann, the shoots are produced in the operation in 38 degree hot water vapor. "Optimal conditions for the growth of EHEC pathogen," said Lindemann. The pathogen could have been imported already with the seed from which the shoots were produced.
According to Lindemann at the start, shaft and shoots were investigated as a possible cause already.
"But then there was a restriction on three types of vegetables," he said, referring to the warning of cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce. In a total of 500 samples of vegetables so far no EHEC pathogens through the Lower Saxony State Office has been established. Lindemann did not lift yet on Sunday, the consumption warning tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce.
Meanwhile, 21 deaths to be associated with EHEC. Nationwide, more than 1,500 cases of EHEC and 620 HUS cases have been reported.
Sprouts were already in Japan 1996 fall associated with EHEC disease is suspected. A final confirmation of the suspected but had not revealed Michael Kuehne said of LAVES. A wave of disease by shoots in Europe is not the LAVES known, he said.
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