ISSUE NO. 1439
31 JANUARY - 6 FEBRUARY 2013
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Calls for enquiry as horse meat on menu HORSE MEAT has been found in burger meat at two leading supermarket chains. The Organisation of Consumers
and Users (OCU) said two samples branded ‘burger meat’ not only contained horse DNA but also had significant amounts of an additive
called ‘sulphites’, a substance used to prevent the growth of bacteria and maintain a fresh meat appearance. Although the presence of horse meat was not a health issue, it was a matter of fraud against the consumer who would have thought they were buying beef. According to the OCU, sulphites are legal but are anything but innocuous. The meat analysed is said to contain 90 per cent of a child’s Acceptable Daily Intake (ADI) and therefore they should not TREE CUTTING: The annual winter pruning is well under way. be adding further sulphides present in ketchup or mustard to the same meal. The OCU has PALMA Parks and has so far cut back Due to the approached Spain’s Gardens Department 4,967 trees of 19 unusually warm Agency for Food Safety different species in 36 weather in 2012, the and Nutrition (AESAN), districts in its winter work was delayed, the Ministry of Agriculture pruning campaign. but it is expected to and the Autonomous And workers still be completed by Regions for an explanation have 1,136 more to go March. as well as demanding an which the public has Since the start of investigation as to how the asked be cut back as the campaign, trees horse meat wound up in they are considered along 45 public roads these products, with a dangerous. have been pruned. view to imposing fines.
Now trees face cut-backs!
NEWS EXTRA
Prince wiped off web page THE Spanish royal house has deleted all mention of Iñaki Urdagarin, husband of Princess Cristina, from the official web page. He is embroiled in a financial corruption scandal.
Free ride MALLORCA Railway Services (SFM) calculates that 27 per cent of users do not pay fares. It hopes a €5.5 million investment will solve the problem, with a plan projected to be fully operational by 2015.
Fire raiser FRANCISCO JAVIER M.M. of Palma has confessed to starting 20 forest fires last summer. He said he enjoyed setting fires but claims he is now repentant and never intended to hurt anyone.