Berlin (dapd). The cause of dangerous bowel disease is not found in 75 to 80 percent of EHEC cases. The declared consumer Minister Ilse Aigner (CSU) on Wednesday in the Government survey of the Bundestag. However, there is a Indizienkette, which leads to the sprout producers in the Lower Saxony Bienenbüttel, Aigner said. That is why it still the warning that sprouts should not currently be consumed.

Daniel Bahr (FDP), the Health Minister and Aigner stressed that also the warning of cucumbers, will maintain salads and tomatoes in the area of Northern Germany. «It can be given no all-clear», said Bahr. Aigner stressed it case easy for anyone to say such a warning. «But precautionary consumer protection has just priority», she added. Health have priority over economic interests.

Aigner urged that the issue is not for party-political disputes. «The devastating occurrence of this pathogen in Germany is so far unique.» «It is more than serious.» She will be treated by the Federal Government.

The two Ministers rejected criticism of the information policy of the Government. «You can accuse the polyphonic choir of the Federal Government not», Bahr said. The Government have in their statements to the official findings relate, so that the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) and the Federal Institute for risk assessment. The countries would have kept it. “Our statements were always clearly tailored and unique,” he added.