Posted: June 11th, 2011 - 12:06pm by Doug Powell

Seek and ye shall find.

But countries still won’t test their way to a safe food supply.

Testing is extremely useful for validating safety procedures and to have a sense of what’s out there.

There’s lots of various E. coli out there.

RNW reports for the second time this week the Dutch Food Quality Authority (nVWA) has found sprouts contaminated with the EHEC bacterium, although it is not the O104 variant. A spokesperson for the Authority said on Friday that the beet seed sprouts have been withdrawn from the market on the orders of Health Minister Edith Schippers.

Meanwhile, Thailand said on Saturday that it had detected E. coli in cabbage imported from Europe and was checking whether it was the lethal strain involved in a killer outbreak in northern Germany.

On Friday Thailand said that E. coli found in avocados a day earlier was not the deadly strain that has swept Europe in recent weeks.

Testing has a role -- make it meaningful.