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Germany: E. Coli Not Found in Initial Testing of Sprouts (Cucumber => Beansprouts => ?)
NYT ^ | 06/06/11 | JUDY DEMPSEY and JAMES KANTER

Posted on 06/06/2011 5:59:12 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

E. Coli Not Found in Initial Testing of Sprouts

By JUDY DEMPSEY and JAMES KANTER

Published: June 6, 2011

BERLIN — A day after German agricultural officials identified locally grown sprouts as a possible cause of the E.coli outbreak that has killed 22 people and sickened more than 2,200, the officials said Monday that initial tests had failed to show conclusively that the bacteria originated with the sprouts.

Results from the first 23 of 40 tests on several varieties of sprouts came back negative, said officials from the agriculture ministry in the state of Lower Saxony. The ministry did not indicate when the remainder of the test results would be known.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agriculture; beansprouts; ecoli; germany; organic; outbreak

1 posted on 06/06/2011 5:59:15 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

E coli are not from plants.

More likely: human feces.

Rhymes with “Mitt”.


2 posted on 06/06/2011 6:00:48 PM PDT by Diogenesis ( Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Gal Crying Wolf: Hamburg Health Minister Cornelia Pruefer-Storcks

Her First Victims

Her Second Victims




Tune in for Her Their Attempt !!


3 posted on 06/06/2011 6:06:00 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: Diogenesis

With all of the North Africans fleeing mooselimb countries for Europe this was a done deal! Sadly not much different from here!


4 posted on 06/06/2011 6:07:17 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: TigerLikesRooster

lol. you forgot tomatoes.

I think she needs help.


5 posted on 06/06/2011 6:08:44 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Khomeini promised change too // Hail, Chairman O)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They should check out those "green" round trip use over grocery bags so popular in Europe, San Francisco and the third-world.

Tests regularly demonstrate that they become heavily contaminated with e-coli.

6 posted on 06/06/2011 6:08:44 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Of course, it’s not terrorism related. Don’t blame the muslims.


7 posted on 06/06/2011 6:10:54 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: TigerLikesRooster

a form of terrorism?


8 posted on 06/06/2011 6:11:43 PM PDT by television is just wrong
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I still speculate that it came from the local mosque and habituates.


9 posted on 06/06/2011 6:20:01 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: TigerLikesRooster
They would never name a strain after mohamed. Even if he deserved it/ took credit for it. Test run folks. Test successful.
10 posted on 06/06/2011 6:37:26 PM PDT by allmost
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To: Diogenesis
An E. coli strain that has killed 22 and sickened more than 2,000 is unlikely to have come from a Turk pooping in a field. That's just the way it is.

Unless you believe that multiple people were crapping the same strain of E. Coli . . . .

God, I hate it when FReepers go all retarded.

11 posted on 06/06/2011 6:57:04 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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What if some farmer hired illegals all from the same area in N Africa for cheap, and they all had lived with the same N. African water source? Turkey is far more modernized than North Africa.

Gosh,
I hate it when fellow Freepers get all “panties in a wad” over microbiology that is far out of their intellectual zone and just want to “nay say”!


12 posted on 06/06/2011 7:07:30 PM PDT by acapesket
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To: acapesket; All

False pedantry alert!


13 posted on 06/06/2011 7:11:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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To: acapesket

Oh yeah, that could happen. LOL


14 posted on 06/06/2011 7:11:31 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: editor-surveyor
Hey buddy, perhaps you could point to one instance of a mass outbreak being caused by a single human source? I'll be waiting.
15 posted on 06/06/2011 7:13:43 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Correction:

Tune in for Her Their Attempt !!

16 posted on 06/06/2011 7:17:54 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Correction:

Tune in for Her TheirThird Attempt !!

17 posted on 06/06/2011 7:19:18 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
I nominate Arugula as the "next" wild-goose chase. (Maybe Yo-mama will chip in since he likes it so well.)

Never seen before, huh? Maybe it's really, really new and this is just a test drive? Even paranoids have enemies.....I've read Rainbow 6 too many times.

18 posted on 06/06/2011 7:25:43 PM PDT by stboz
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To: 1rudeboy

What is your point?


19 posted on 06/06/2011 9:13:27 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Going 'EGYPT' - 2012!)
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