Day 094 - 01 Mar 95 - Page 23
1 A. No.
2
3 Q. -- if one is infected?
4 A. That is incorrect. When they are in confinement in a
5 controlled environment, there is a much better opportunity
6 to control diseases.
7
8 Q. But if one gets it, because they are all closely in
9 together, they are all likely to be infected?
10 A. If one, yes.
11
12 Q. Would you accept that the processing lines move so fast
13 that thorough examination of the carcasses is all but
14 impossible?
15 A. Yes, I would.
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17 MR. MORRIS: You said that when you test for Salmonella you test
18 one per cent of birds, or something, or a piece which you
19 are testing, and the bacteria is not evenly spread, it is
20 in patches, yes?
21 A. That is correct.
22
23 Q. So when you are testing, well, most times you will not find
24 the infection?
25 A. Yes, that could happen.
26
27 Q. So when you find, say, on a particular day that 22 per cent
28 of birds were identified as having Salmonella infection,
29 the other birds that you tested, you do not know whether
30 they had the Salmonella infection or not because you may
31 not have actually found it, they may have been infected?
32 A. That is correct.
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34 Q. Just moving on to meat, to beef products.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We will have our five minutes there.
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38 (Short Adjournment)
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40 MS. STEEL: Can you just explain at what point, you said that
41 McDonald's only gets a certain percentage of the meat from
42 each chicken. At what point is the meat split off that
43 goes for McDonald's and that goes to other places?
44 A. During what we call the deboning room.
45
46 Q. Right. So, it is before it gets to the processing, the
47 actual processing into ------
48 A. Nuggets or McChicken, yes.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: When you have a McDonald's line or a
51 dedicated part of a Tyson plant, does that begin, the
52 McDonald's part of it, after the deboning?
53 A. No, no. It totally starts from the beginning from the
54 breeding stock.
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56 Q. So the meat which you do not require is taken out of the
57 line somewhere else, is it?
58 A. That is correct, and it is sold through Tyson to their
59 customers.
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