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Letter: For the record

Published 22 July 2015

• We’re feeling a little crabby. The image with our story on decorator crabs actually showed a porter crab (20 June, p 18).

• We suffered a menu malfunction. Many of the super-filling foods being tested in the EU SATIN project contain resistant starch (20 June, p 14). But the satiating ingredient in the fish balls is a kind of fibre.

• Time isn’t always a healer. New blood donor registrations in England and North Wales have fallen by 40 per cent over the past decade (4 July, p 4).

Issue no. 3031 published 25 July 2015

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