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Five children hospitalised after new E.coli outbreak

Four of the victims, aged between 20 months and 8 years, are believed to have eaten frozen beef purchased from the same supermarket.

Published: 16 June 2011 09:13 CEST

Medical authorities in the Nord/Pas-de-Calais region said that four of the five children had eaten steak haché products purchased at supermarket chain Lidl, according to AFP.

Regional health authority ARS (Agence régionale de Santé) confirmed that the E.coli outbreak had “nothing to do with the recent epidemic in Germany.”

They also “demanded that the manufacturer should recall steaks made by the Steaks Country brand from Lidl shops.”

Medical authorities will continue their investigations to confirm the source of the outbreak.

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Cheese in numbers: France’s obsession with fromage

March 27th is the Journée nationale du fromage in France – so here are a few facts about the delicious dairy delicacy.

246

Charles de Gaulle famously once asked of governing France: “How can anyone govern a country with 246 varieties of cheese?”.

His numbers were wrong. Producers in France make closer to 1,000 varieties of cheese – and some have estimated that figure could be pushed up as high as 1,600.

The number of cheese ‘families’ in France. A good cheeseboard in France is generally considered to consist of at least three ‘families’ – a soft cheese, a hard cheese and either a blue or a goat’s cheese. Remember, too, an odd number of fromages on a platter is better than an even number, according from cheese etiquettists

2.5

About how long – in years – it would take you to try every cheese made in France, if you tried a new variety every day. Life goals.

The percentage of people in France who say they eat cheese at least once a week, spending seven percent of their weekly food bill on it.

Two-fifths of French people say they eat cheese every day

The amount of cheese produced, in kilogrammes, in France every second, according to this website, which has a counter to show you how fast that really is. It’s estimated that 1.8 million tonnes of cheese are produced in France every year.

The French consume, on average, a whopping 27 kilogrammes of cheese per person per year.

The three most popular cheeses in France, based on sales, are Emmental, Camembert, and Raclette – followed by mozzarella, goat’s cheese, Comté and Coulommiers.

Some 63 cheeses have been awarded the Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée status, which means they can only be produced in a certain region.

France has – or at least soon will have – one dedicated cheese museum.

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