• The online version of an article reporting warnings of safety concerns over bamboo cups that contain plastic resin was initially accompanied by an image of an Ecoffee Cup brand of bamboo composite cup. However, the company has told us that it has not manufactured such cups since 2019, when it switched to using the biopolymer PLA, and that both its original and present products have undergone independent testing showing they “exceed the safety standards for food contact of plastic items (EC) No.1935/ 2004 and (EC) No. 10/ 2011 pertaining to migration of M-F resin”. We apologise to Ecoffee Cup for any confusion caused.
• Hôtel Matignon is the residence and workplace of the French prime minister, not that of the president as a column suggested when referring to it as “Macron’s official residence” (“Bedbug hysteria brings with it a new set of dirty linen”, 22 October, Magazine, p5).
• Owing to an error introduced during editing, an article on baby names gave the impression that it was the writer’s partner who was finding it difficult to pronounce their child’s name (Fabian); it was actually the child himself (“Guess how much my name cost…”, 22 October, Magazine, p14).
• We once again misnamed the constituency of Somerton and Frome, won by the Liberal Democrats in a July byelection, as “Somerset and Frome” (“Tories despair at scale of defeats…”, 22 October, p12).
Other recently amended articles include:
‘We had no money’: desperate UK public increasingly turning to pawnbrokers to make ends meet
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