Day 094 - 01 Mar 95 - Page 33
1 A. Yes, I have.
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3 Q. Have you walked round the plant and checked it with your
4 expert eye?
5 A. Checked it?
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7 Q. The procedures, you are satisfied they are -----
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9 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What you are being asked, you have obviously
10 visited it?
11 A. Yes.
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13 Q. But have you visited it with an eye to seeing how it is run
14 and checking its procedures?
15 A. Not in detail, no.
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17 MR. MORRIS: Have you read the procedural -----
18 A. Manual? What we call "the black book"?
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20 Q. What I am saying is you said, for example -----
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why not get straight to what you want in
23 relation to McKey's because otherwise ----
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25 MR. MORRIS: I just do not know how much -- when you check a
26 plant -----
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But what has this actually got to do with Dr.
29 Gomez Gonzalez?
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31 MR. MORRIS: I am trying to compare the McKeys plant with the
32 US -----
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34 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is fair enough, but you could say:
35 "This happens at McKey, does it happen at Tysons?" I know
36 they are not beef, give another one. "Does it happen at
37 OSI or wherever?". He has given a broad statement, that
38 when it comes to McDonald's part in supervising procedures
39 it is pretty well the same on both sides of the Atlantic.
40 If you challenge any part of that, I suggest you challenge
41 it. If you are saying: "Whatever McDonald's procedures
42 may be, do OSI do this the same as McKey?" or something
43 like that, put that.
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45 MR. MORRIS: I am not sure if you know what McKey do.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, the answer may be: "I do not know, I do
48 not know how OSI do it" or "I know OSI do it this way, I do
49 not know how McKey's do it". But he would be able to focus
50 in on it
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52 MR. MORRIS: I thought to save time, I did not really want to go
53 through all the procedures that we went through before.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. (To the witness): Did you see anything
56 different between the way that McKey is run with a view to
57 limiting risk of food poisoning at the end of the day which
58 struck you as significantly different to the procedures in
59 any of these six plants of five suppliers whom you
60 mentioned about half an hour ago?
