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On 5 September 2015, the notoriously unreliable web site Before It's News published an article stating that the Burger King fast food chain had now admitted after continuous denial that it has actually been selling UK customers both burgers and Whoppers that contain horsemeat: The Before It's News piece misleadingly linked to a nearly three-year-old article from the UK newspaper The Guardian referencing a controversy that began in late 2012 when subsidiaries of the ABP Food Group (including Silvercrest Foods and Dalepak Hambleton) were discovered to have been inadvertently been supplying beef products contaminated with horsemeat to retailers in Ireland and the UK. Although Burger King beef products were not targeted in contamination tests performed by Irish authorities at the time, and the chain was not found to be serving burgers containing horsemeat, the company quickly switched production facilities in order to ensure the safety and quality of their offerings: In short, Burger King stated back in early 2013 that trace amounts of horse DNA had been found at one of their suppliers' plants, but they had immediately discontinued use of that supplier as a precaution, and no horse DNA had actually been found in the chain's burgers. Nonetheless, the disreputable Before It's News site deliberately misrepresented a nearly three-year-old story about a horsemeat contamination scandal that had barely touched Burger King to make it appear that the chain was now acknowledging they are currently selling horsemeat to customers who order hamburgers.
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