The impact had spread and was inflicting estimated losses of 200 million euros a week, according to the Spanish fruit and vegetable producer-exporter federation, FEPEX.

Asked which countries had stopped buying Spanish produce, FEPEX president Jorge Brotons told a news conference: “Almost all Europe. There is a domino effect on all vegetables and fruits. A psychosis has been created.”

German authorities said they detected the potentially dangerous bacteria on organic cucumbers imported from two producers in southern Spain’s Andalucia region.

“Orders are plunging daily,” Brotons said.

“It is as if an order had gone out across Europe not to buy Spanish produce,” he added. “Every week

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The UK is home to more than 220,000 property millionaires, according to research published today by Zoopla.co.uk.

The home buying information website’s Property Rich List 2011 showed that although the number of people living in houses worth £1 million or more had fallen slightly since last year, Britain has nearly 6,000 streets where the average price of a home is £1 million or more.

London topped the poll of “million pound streets” by a considerable margin with 2,290 of the 5,922 listed. Guildford, a popular commuter town, was some way behind in second place with 89, while footballers’ paradise Cobham came in third with 78. Both Guildford and Cobham are in Surrey.

The country’s most expensive properties were shown to be in Kensington, where the average house now costs some £1,737,862. A property i

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