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as uk sales slide, fresh produce industry players say they are disappointed by the german and eu authorities’ variously indecisive and misleading steps when dealing with the german e.coli outbreak that has seen 16 people die and around 1,614 fall ill. nigel jenney, fresh produce consortium (fpc) chief executive, said the german authorities’ initial response to what the world health organisation has identified a new ‘super toxic’ strain of escherichia coli (e.
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reports of victims continued to climb yesterday as the world health organisation (who) declared the deadly e.coli bacterium that has killed 17 and left 1614 sickened is a new and virulent strain of the bug. mounting confusion over the source of the health scare has triggered a furious eu-wide row - with russia banning imports of all european raw vegetables and spain threatening legal action against german authorities for wrongly naming its produce as causing the crisis.
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spain: madrid hits back over mistaken e.coli accusations by: petah marian | 1 june 2011 spain has hit back at allegations by german health authorities that cucumbers imported from the country caused an e.coli outbreakthe spanish government and local trade bodies have hit back at germany\'s public health ministry after it was found that spanish cucumbers have not been responsible for a deadly e.
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germany’s national disease centre confirmed yesterday that it does not know the source of a e.coli outbreak that has lead to a number of deaths across europe.it was initially thought that the contamination came from cucumbers that had been imported from spain. until yesterday, the european commission suspected that the outbreak was due to fresh cucumbers that had come from almeria and malaga. there has also been a third suspect batch originating in either the netherlands or denmark that were traded in germany, which is currently under investigation.
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germany\'s national disease centre has confirmed today (31 may) that it does not know the source of a e.coli outbreak that has lead to a number of deaths across europe. it was initially thought that the contamination came from cucumbers that had been imported from spain. until yesterday, the european commission suspected that the outbreak was due to fresh cucumbers that had come from almeria and malaga.
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consumption of the flavour enhancer monosodium glutamate (msg) is positively associated with weight gain, independent of energy intake, says new research. the study, published in the american journal of clinical nutrition, examined the long term association between msg consumption and incidence of being overweight in an otherwise healthy population of over ten thousand chinese adults the authors, from university of north carolina, usa, and the chinese center for disease control and prevention, china, found that people consuming the highest amount of msg were associated with a 33 per cent higher risk of weight gain than the group consuming the lowest amount of msg.
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the agency is now providing further information in relation to the e. coli outbreak that is taking place in germany. the agency can confirm that the german authorities have identified a source of the outbreak as being organic cucumbers from two provinces in spain (almeria and malaga), with a third suspected source of cucumbers originating in the netherlands.
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reducing the proportion of fat in the diet could significantly reduce the risk of developing type-2 diabetes, even without weight loss, according to a new study. the research, published in the american journal of clinical nutrition, challenges the idea that weight loss is necessarily a crucial factor for reducing risk of type-2 diabetes. the researchers, from the university of alabama at birmingham (uab) provided 69 healthy overweight individuals with one of two calorically identical diets for eight weeks – either a reduced carbohydrate, higher fat diet (43 percent carbohydrate, 39 percent fat), or a standard diet of 55 percent carbohydrate and 27 percent fat.
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a university of missouri researcher has found that eating a healthy breakfast, especially one high in protein, increases satiety and reduces hunger throughout the day. in addition, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri), the researchers found that eating a protein-rich breakfast reduces the brain signals controlling food motivation and reward-driven eating behavior. “everyone knows that eating breakfast is important, but many people still don’t make it a priority,” said heather leidy, assistant professor in the mu department of nutrition and exercise physiology.
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