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Nicola Holden, a professor of food safety also at SRUC, a public land based research institution focused on agriculture and life sciences, also commented on the impact the current weather may be having on salad leaves.
She said: “The rainy weather means that for any field grown crops humidity will be higher within the leaf canopy. We know that STEC [E. coli] favours high humid conditions. However, it’s hard to directly say that rainy weather will result in better or more STEC bacteria associated with plant leaves.”
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said on Saturday that it is “confident” an Apollo type lettuce has caused the outbreak, but that efforts to confirm the root cause are ongoing.
The FSA said it expects at least one more food manufacturer to recall products over the weekend, and that investigations are ongoing.
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