Germany has not found any further cases of foot-and-mouth disease, agriculture minister Cem Oezdemir said on Wednesday, adding that experts were working day and night to establish the source of the country's first outbreak in decades.

Germany’s farming and food industry is likely to have lost about 1 billion euros ($1 billion) of business following an outbreak of the livestock illness foot-and-mouth disease, the head of the farming cooperatives association told German media on Thursday.

EU Agriculture Commissioner Christophe Hansen called for caution on Thursday after a second suspected outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in livestock was reported in eastern Germany. A first outbreak at a water buffalo farm near Berlin last week has led to widespread culling and some trade restrictions.