The Spanish cucumber scare in Germany shows how quickly a food scare can take hold and demolish a whole category of vegetable sales from a particular country.
Cucumbers became beansprouts, and Spanish farmers rightly lost the rag.
The whole incident shows how precarious the food chain can be, and how precarious market stability can be too.
Thank the heavens it wasn’t a mushroom farm implicated, then the whole mushroom sector Europewide would have felt the chill wind of food scare.
