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User:rorynoonanDate:17/01/2013Time:11:25:56Edition:17/01/2013Thuthurecho170113Page:1Color:
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Give us the burgersHorse or not, don’t waste this good food saysSVP chief — people are starving out there
Is this thesexiest man
on TV?CORK’S own Roy Keane, left,was described last night as“the sexiest man on TV!”This was after the formerManchester United captainappeared as a pundit on ITV’spanel commenting on United’s1-0 FA Cup win over WestHam. He was sporting a newbeard, and the facial hairdrew much comment on radioshows and internet forums.On Newstalk, there was somedebate about whether the newbeard suited Roy, with somecallers declaring that Keanewas now the sexiest man ontelevision.● See Sport for more.
By RONAN BAGNALL
A LEADING charity figure in Cork hassaid it’s sinful to destroy 10 million bur-gers when people are hungry.
Brendan Dempsey, regional vice president of StVincent de Paul, (SVP), said he was confident thatcharities would accept some of the beef burgers thatwere withdrawn from shelves if they passed all foodsafety standards.The Food Safety Authority of Ireland and the Min-
ister for Agriculture Simon Coveney have bothstressed that the beef burgers, withdrawn becausethey contained horse and pig DNA, were perfectlysafe for human consumption.The controversy surrounds the misleading la-
belling of the products. Patrick Wall, a professor ofpublic health in UCD, also said today that it was sadthat 10 million frozen burgers were likely to be des-troyed, because DNA at a level of 29% was found inone brand of burger. He said DNA testing was sosensitive that it would pick up tiny molecules ofother meats. Many of the burgers at the centre of thecontroversy had only traces of horse and pig DNA.Professor Wall said: “If beef meat was transported
in a refrigerated vehicle that had horse or pork meaton a previous load then this could explain cross-con-
tamination of traces of DNA.”Mr Dempsey said: “It’s sinful to waste food when
people are hungry. So long as the burgers come upto food safety standards and people are aware ofwhat is in them, I wouldn’t have a problem withmaking them available to people.” The company atthe centre of the controversy, Silvercrest Food inMonaghan, has not confirmed its plans for the with-drawn burgers. The company refused to commenttoday.● See page four for more.
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