英语新闻阅读：俄罗斯将对欧洲蔬菜解禁

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　　Russia says it will lift its ban on European Union vegetables imposed in
the wake of the deadly E. coli outbreak.
        　　Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and EU Commission chief Jose Manuel
Barroso made the joint announcement Friday following a two-day Russia-EU summit
in the central Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod.
        　　The EU is to provide Moscow with documents certifying the vegetables'
safety.
        　　German public health officials say new data show that contaminated sprouts
are the source of the outbreak, which has killed at least 30 people and sickened
nearly 3,000 others. All but one of the deaths and the majority of those
infected have been in Germany.
        　　The head of Germany's national disease control center said Friday the
pattern of the outbreak points to the sprouts as the source.
        　　Health officials initially blamed the bacterial infection on Spanish
cucumbers and other vegetables and then spread the blame to other European
countries, costing EU farmers millions of dollars as produce was left to rot in
fields and warehouses. Russia is one of the EU's largest markets for vegetables
and other produce.
        　　German authorities are now lifting the warning against eating cucumbers,
tomatoes and lettuce, but they say the crisis is not over and people should not
eat bean sprouts.