MEPA has said in a statement this evening that “investigations carried out by the Environmental Protection Directorate within MEPA concluded that no carcasses of animals were imported from North Africa into Malta to be incinerated at Marsa as alleged by Leo Brincat in a press conference given on the 2 June 2012.”

MEPA said that “Leo Brincat appears to have based his wrong assumptions on internal MEPA correspondence interpreted out of its proper context.”

MEPA’s investigations further concluded that “the Marsa Thermal Treatment Facility acted in accordance with the instructions of the Director General of Veterinary Services in incinerating all waste generated from ships having Libya as a port-of-call and all international catering waste originating at the airport, in accordance with EU Council Regulation 1069/2009.”

“This procedure was introduced to eliminate the possibility of contamination from the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in Libya,” MEPA concluded.

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