Small numbers of Spanish vegetables suspected of contamination with a potentially deadly bacteria are being recalled from shops in Austria and the Czech Republic to prevent the spread of an outbreak that has killed at least nine people and left hundreds ill across Europe, officials said today.

TIGHTER controls on food coming from Japan are being put in place by the EU but some MEPs have warned they may not be enough to protect people from the dangers of radiation contamination.

FIANNA FÁIL in its final days in government changed the country’s policy on genetically- modified organisms and voted at EU level to allow untested GM into animal feed.

MORE than one million signatures have been gathered in a legal bid to “freeze” genetically modified (GM) crop cultivation in the EU.