The news coverage of the deadly EHEC bacteria outbreak in Europe came as a bombshell. Ghent University (Belgium) examined 6132 reactions of Belgian newspaper readers after reading the first news reports. As expected, people are scared and worried, but governmental trust decreases fear and leads to a higher intention to keep on eating fresh produce. These are a few of the results from a research done by Melanie De Vocht, PhD student in Communications Sciences (UGent). The results show that 65.5 per cent of the newspaper readers are worried and a little less (64... 
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