Summary of newspapers of the previous day – 14. 6. 2011

Bacteria E. coli: health is endangered by sprouts of broccoli, garlic and peppers

German experts searching for causal agent of E. coli infection, which obviously spread from a farm in Saxon Bienenbüttel, found out that local infected employees ate sprouts of broccoli, garlic and pepper known as ram horns. Saxon Ministress of Health Aygül Özkan announced that sprouts of the mentioned three kinds of vegetable are under cloud as a source of the infection. Five ill or positively tested employees of the farm in Bienenbüttel ate them in a bigger amount.

Billa: Cucumber sale influenced by affair stopped to decrease

A decrease in cucumber sales caused by customers´ anxiety about enteric infection epidemic in Germany returns to the normal. A business manager of supermarkets Billa, Petr Dupal, said it to journalists today. In connection with the affair, chain´s sales of cucumbers grown in a common way decreased by five to seven percents, in bio-cucumbers the demand did not changed, according to Dupal. Some bio-foods businessmen spoke about as much as three-percent decrease in bio-vegetable sale at beginning of the month.

Farmers earn by something more this year except pigs and poultry

Farmers in the Czech Republic get now paid for plant production better than the last year. Prices are higher in cereals and rape; also the milk realization is improving. However, price in pigs from January to April remains at 26.60 crowns for kilogram of live weight which is less than in 1992. It is a deep loss, a chairman of the union Miroslav Jirovský said to ČTK at a meeting of the Agricultural Union of the CR in Větrný Jeníkov today. According to him, a bad situation is also in poultry.

Licensing of home cattle slaughters endangers health of people and animal

The Food Chamber of the CR and the Czech Meet Processors Union warn of an enhanced risk of health hazard of people and animals in case of permitting of home slaughters of cattle younger than 24 months. The both organizations are afraid of that meat from cattle slaughtered in home will not be used only for the breeder´s own consumption and that it would intensify illegal meat trade which already exists. According to estimations of the Czech Meat Processors Union, the meat coming from cattle slaughtered so called in the service in licensed slaughters and determined for private or also commercial use by a breeder reaches approximately 3000 tonnes yearly.