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Summary E.coli outbreak has led France to halt sales of vegetable seeds from a British gardening firm.
Health officials confirmed they had found the same bacteria in French patients as that which killed 44 people and left more than 850 seriously ill in Germany in recent months.The origin of the contamination has not been established, but the French government said six of the people hospitalised in Bordeaux ate sprouted salad vegetables believed to have been grown from seeds sold by a British company.Ten E.coli cases have been detected in Bordeaux and eight people were still in hospital yesterday.
