Posted on 06/02/2011 1:54:38 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
MADRID, Spain (AP) -- Spain's prime minister has hit out at the European Commission and Germany on Thursday for singling out the country's produce as a possible source of a deadly bacterial outbreak in Europe, and said the government would demand explanations and reparations.
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said the EU commission "was slow because from the moment the minister in Hamburg had ruled it (E. coli outbreak) was not caused by Spanish cucumbers it should have reacted more decisively and faster."
The bacteria outbreak has killed 17 people, most in Germany, over the past week. The crisis paralyzed Spanish exports of fruit and vegetables.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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A vender sorts cucumbers at a vegetable stall at Naschmarkt food market in Vienna May 30, 2011. A virulent form of E.coli bacteria blamed on infected cucumbers from Spain has killed 10 people in Germany and sickened 300, health officials said on Sunday while warning people not to eat suspect vegetables. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer
Cucumber crisis? What, are we still talking about Congressman Weiner?
"Cucumber? Don't look at ME. I take the Fifth. I have no comment. I was hacked."
¿Es eso un pepino en su bolsillo, o es usted apenas feliz de verme?
HEY dont publish my cuke!!!
One of the rare occasions when I agree with Zapatero.
Claro que si! Pero ése no es cómo aparecen los pepinos europeos. Yo se.
Meanwhile, this came from the SF Gate.
Something for their readers to be aware of perhaps?
¿Qué esperan? fertilizar con excretment primas hacen que una persona enferma absolutamente!
Me dijeron que los pepinos europeos eran cómo los norteamericanos sino más pequeño.
Y no seas grosero. Vale.
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