Four more deaths have been confirmed by German health officials on Friday bringing the total number of European deaths by an outbreak of e. coli to 31. All but one were in Germany.
According German health authorities the bacterium has mapped out outbreaks were found a home in North Rhine-Westphalia in Western Germany. This is the first time that the real bacteria has been found in products.
The number of people infected with e. coli now amounts to 2,988, of which 759 have the severe form of bowel disease. Although the infection rate is slowing, the Robert Koch Institute officials said that it will continue to increase the number of infections.
A spokesman for the German Ministry of Consumer Affairs said outbreaks were tested at home, when two members of the family was infected after eating the sprouts.
Vegetables in question seem to be from an area of the North of Germany which has already been linked to the outbreak, spokesman of the Ministry of Stephan Melessa.
The researchers determined soybeans were the cause of the outbreak after 17 people became ill after eating at the restaurant, Reinhard Burger, President of the Robert Koch Institute, he told reporters.
Authorities questioned people about what they ate and asked the chefs where the ingredients came from, said Burger.
The common denominator, he said, was only those who ate foods containing outbreaks sickened.
Farmers in Spain, France, Holland and Belgium has been seeking compensation for their losses. The European Commission has proposed that the European Union pays around $ 300 million, but Spain claims only about 600 million dollars in losses.
In Spain, the exporter of fresh Frunet filed what is believed to be the first trial by a Spanish company against the Government of the State of Hamburg on their previous complaints were Spanish products the culprits for the outbreak of Escherichia coli.
The complaint, filed Thursday in Hamburg, calls for the immediate release of all laboratory tests and other documentation that officials of Hamburg used when they blamed, it said wrongly as it happens--organic cucumbers of the Frunet as the source of the outbreak, owner of Frunet, Antonio Lavao, to CNN by telephone on Friday.
Frunet, in the province of Malaga in the South of Spain, expected to file another lawsuit against the Government of the State of Hamburg seeking 1 million euros (144 million dollars) in losses of fresh products had to destroy, said Lavao.
"My company was named specifically" by the German authorities, said Lavao.
Its exports remain blocked because even though German and European Commission officials have deactivated Spanish cucumbers in general of any link to the outbreak, it is still suspicion among his clients since their signing was identified, erroneously, as a source of the bacteria, he said.
"We do not want to be collateral damage."We want a specific correction, said Lavao.
Demand is the first of its kind by a Spanish company against the German authorities, said Jose Maria Pozancos, director general of the Federation of export of fresh products of Spain Fepex.
Frunet grows cucumbers relatively few; his specialty is premium for export tomatoes.
Lavao said that he was not confident that your company will receive public compensation, reason by which filed the lawsuit against the German authorities.CNN Frederik Pleitgen and the Goodman contributed to this report.
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