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Peter Finocchiaro

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Peter Finocchiaro

An employee of the consumer protection authority of Lower Saxony examines samples of sprouts from a farm in the Uelzen area in Oldenburg, northern Germany, Monday, June 6, 2011. In a surprising U-turn, German officials said the initial tests provided no evidence that sprouts from an organic farm in northern Germany were the cause of the country's deadly E. coli outbreak. The Lower-Saxony state agriculture ministry said 23 of 40 samples from the sprout farm suspected of being behind the outbreak have tested negative for the highly aggressive, "super-toxic" strain of E. coli bacteria. It said tests were still under way on the other 17 sprout samples. (AP Photo/dapd, Markus Hibbeler) (AP)

Kirsten Grieshaber

Men carry cucumbers collected for destruction at a greenhouse compound outside Bucharest, Romania, Monday, June 6, 2011. Producers destroyed thousands of tons of cucumbers over the past two days, according to local media, after their production was either turned back from exports or refused for sale by supermarkets in Romania for fear of E. coli bacteria contamination. The current crisis is the deadliest known E. coli outbreak, killing at least 22 people and sickening more than 2,300 across Europe. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda) (AP)

E.U. farm chief proposes millions in E. coli aid

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Peter Finocchiaro

Chief of the laboratory in research into the Escherichia Coli bacterium at the Brno research institute Pavel Alexa, left, and his assistant Gabriela Glocknerova, right, take samples from a cucumber for a molecular biological test in Brno, Czech Republic, Wednesday, June 1, 2011. The ongoing outbreak of E. coli has claimed 16 people and around 1500 infected across Europe. The laboratory is testing the vegetables for the Czech market. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek) (AP)

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"My Plate," the USDA's new healthy eating symbol.

Mary Clare Jalonick

Federal police officers escort Julio de Jesus Radilla Hernandez, aka "El Negro", center, Jose Luis Luquin Delgado, aka "El Jabon" , left, and Valentin Ortiz Lopez, as they are presented to the press at the federal police headquarters in Mexico City, Wednesday, May 25, 2011. Mexico's federal police said Radilla Hernandez is allegedly responsible for ordering the March 27 murder of Juan Francisco Sicilia, son of Mexican poet Javier Sicilia and six other people. Luquin Delgado and Ortiz Lopez are also involved in the crime. (AP Photo/Marco Ugarte) (AP)

Maybe it's time to call off the war on drugs

Boxes containing tomatoes stand behind a fence at the closed shop of a distributor at the central fruit and vegetable market in Berlin on Tuesday, afternoon, May 31, 2011. The selling of vegetables especially tomatoes, cucumbers and salad went down after the products are suspected to cause the E. coli outbreak in Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) (AP)

Maria Cheng, Nataliya Vasilyeva

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Peter Finocchiaro - Emma Mustich

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A farm worker shows a cucumber cut in half in a greenhouse in Algarrobo, near Malaga, southern Spain, on Tuesday, May 31, 2011. Angry Spanish farmers whose produce has been cited as a possible source of the deadly bacterial infection in Europe are watching in despair as machines grind their suddenly unwanted fruit and vegetables into compost and are particularly livid with Germany. Spanish agriculture associations accuse German officials of being trigger-happy in singling out two Spanish farm produce companies as sources of cucumbers tainted with E. coli before ascertaining if the vegetables were contaminated before leaving Spain or along the transport chain or while being handled in Germany itself. (AP Photo/Sergio Torres) (AP)

Maria Cheng, David Rising

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