The outbreak of intestinal infection in Europe could lead to the fact that people are afraid to buy vegetables and herbs. In Russia, on May 30 imposed a ban on the import of Spanish and German raw vegetables: cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce - the main suspects in the spread of infection. Can we consider fear premature?
Many experts believe that buying vegetables and herbs on the market in Russia is practically safe: the products here are mainly imported from the CIS countries - Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan. Although there are vegetables from Turkey, Israel, the Netherlands, but they are much smaller than the segment. But in the supermarkets of the European provisions already more: here you and nectarines, and potatoes, and peppers, cherry tomatoes, radishes.
If we proceed from the official data, the situation in our country is as follows. Russian vegetables account for 30% of agricultural products, 70% are imported. One-fifth of imported products goes to Russia from the countries of the European Union, which because of the danger intestinal infection threatened to close the country's chief sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko. At the same time greenhouse vegetables from Germany to Russia is not available at all, in Spain we have mainly tomatoes and a few cucumbers and eggplant. The main supplies of vegetables coming from Turkey and China.
The most skeptical believe that Russia can quite notorious romp Spanish cucumbers or vegetables from Germany, where the poisoning cases today the most. Change documents for products from unwanted areas on a "right" is not so difficult: there were Spanish cucumbers - It became Israeli and got the green light. And in appearance to understand where he brought a salad or tomatoes is almost impossible.
Meanwhile, yesterday announced the results of a thorough laboratory testing of imported Spanish cucumbers in Germany. It showed that the lethal human infection in these vegetables do not.
Doctors also say that E. coli lives in the fruit. Where can actually nest infection, so it is in the manure, which is on the European agribusiness is not applicable. Contamination could occur only because someone's dirty hands: the collector, packer or buyer.
By the way . on health statistics 75% of men and 56% of women in Russia do not wash their hands after using the toilet
Therefore, doctors recommend not to panic, and carefully wash all - and hands, and vegetables. Moreover, both are possible with soap and water!
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