Belfast Telegraph  Friday 26 December 2014  Science can make
even cucumbers lose their cool  The cucumber is innocent. It was
the bean sprouts that done it.  The Spanish cucumber can once
again raise its sombrero-ed little head with pride after tests
appear to have revealed that Germany's E.coli outbreak was down
to homegrown bean sprouts.  In the time it has taken German
authorities to come to this conclusion Spanish produce has been
dumped wholesale, the country's vegetable industry has been
badly hit and relations between the two countries seriously
damaged.  "We are indignant, angry, furious and everything else
imaginable," is how one Spanish farmer succinctly puts it.  Who
to blame for the fiasco? Isn't science supposed to save us from
this sort of confusion? Or is it now part of the problem?
Elsewhere in Europe, at CERN, HQ of the Large Haldron gadget,
scientists are currently busy trying to trap anti-matter.  You
might think this sounds like the sort of stuff you could get
from diseased bean sprouts,