A Cuban woman passed a magnet over the brown sugar that was distributed this month in the island's warehouses and found pieces of metal.
The Internet user Irina Diéguez Toledo in a publication ofFacebook He invited the country's population to carry out the same experiment and then assured that what he found was iron.
Other users of the social network confirmed having found metals in the product.
"That's why sometimes I bit into something hard that I didn't know, they want to kill us slowly"; "Likewise, I get so upset when I find a little piece"; "They are iron particles," were some comments on the post.
Recently, a similar publication forced the regime to analyze the sugar it delivers for the basic basket in the warehouses of Cárdenas, Matanzas, and dozens of kilograms had to be removed from the distribution network.
On that occasion, state television in that municipality confirmed that the standardized white sugar that was sold to the population contained "fragments of non-soluble foreign matter."nor suitable for human consumption.
The media assured that after several complaints from consumers, who criticized the physical appearance and coloration of the product, a sample was taken to the laboratory of the Municipal Center of Hygiene and Epidemiology of Cárdenas, "where the presence of objectionable particles (pieces of materials that vary in size and quantity).
"According to specialized standards, given the current conditions, this food product is not suitable for human consumption," and its sale was ordered to stop, the publication noted.
Cuba lives aserious crisis in the sugar industry, with reports of the lowest productions in its history.
Since last year thesugar quota has been reduced for the population, to the point of delivering just one pound per consumer last November.
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