SPAIN CLAIM 80 MILLION EUROS FOR CUCUMBER FIASCO

The minister for the environment announced that Spain will be claming 80 million euros in compensation from the EU as a measure of the lossed incurred by Spanish growers following the incorrect diagnosis that the spanish cucumbers(pepinos) were the cause for the e-coli outbreak originating in Germany. Subssequent more stringent tests carried out confirms that the fenugreek seeds from Egypt were the culprit and the EU have banned all imports of Egyptian seeds and beans.