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The knock-on effect is that orders for cucumbers from Spain and Holland have been cancelled altogether, or at best reduced. For cucumbers from Holland, the obvious place to look is in the UK – we already take large volumes of cucumbers at this time of the year. Extra cucumbers will be “dumped” here rather than marketed, and this will drop the price paid to the grower. These price reductions, if they occur, are unlikely to affect the price in the shops but they do have a massive effect on the price paid to growers in the UK.
Here's the bad news…
German broadcaster ZDF underlines the impact of yesterday’s admission by officials in Hamburg that the strain of E.coli found on three Spanish cucumbers was not the same one responsible for the deaths of at least 16 people. For the time being, says the ZDF presenter, “all products are under suspicion”.
E. coli is sinking cucumber growers (by Euronews)
Associated Press video report on E.coli outbreak linked to “tainted vegetables” in Europe.
Emilio Teresa, former International Produce boss, stars as a humble grower-supplier in Asda’s Xmas advert.
Andalusian fresh produce organisation Hortyfruta has been ordered to change its Lola brand (left) after a complaint from Italian importer Dal Bello, which markets bananas under its own Lola trademark (right), was upheld.
