Day 101 - 10 Mar 95 - Page 62


     
     1        supplemented with natural or nature identical vitamins and
     2        minerals.  No routine antibiotics or performance enhancers
     3        are used".  Why does it say that?  Why does it say the part
     4        about "no antibiotics".
     5
     6   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  "No routine".
     7
     8   MS. STEEL:  Why does it say "no routine antibiotics"?
     9        A.  To be honest, I am not sure who wrote this document.
    10        It is certainly not a document that has been published.
    11
    12   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We had some debate about that.  Do you
    13        recognise the document?
    14        A.  What I think it is, it was a draft document which was
    15        the first draft document which was then distributed to the
    16        various departments to check whether what was said here was
    17        totally accurate.  I think a lot or some of the things were
    18        changed.  They went then into the format that you see in
    19        the Facts booklet which was published.
    20
    21   MS. STEEL:  There is nothing in the Fact Book about Oasters, as
    22        it happens, for some mysterious reason.
    23
    24   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  That is virtually what he said just a moment
    25        ago.
    26
    27   MS. STEEL:  So does that mean that the whole Oasters section is
    28        incorrect?
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I correct that.  That is not what he said.
    31        (To the witness):  Is there any reason why Oasters should
    32        be omitted from the Fact Book?
    33        A.  No, I do not think so.  It was not my decision to do
    34        that.  I do not know why they were omitted.  Whether it was
    35        deliberate or accidental, I do not know.
    36
    37   MS. STEEL:   So your department would have seen a copy of this
    38        document as it was being circulated in this draft form?
    39        A.  Yes, I think that is where I recognise it from.
    40
    41   Q.   Do you know whether, apart from the Fact Book, a final
    42        version of this same document was produced?
    43        A.  No, I think this was purely for a draft version for
    44        what was to go into the Fact Book.
    45
    46   Q.   So the bits that were unpalatable were edited out for the
    47        version for the public, yes?
    48        A.  No, I think a decision was -- again, I am
    49        speculating -- we could not put every single fact that
    50        McDonald's has into the Fact Book.  A decision was made, 
    51        whether it was by the people that were responsible for 
    52        publishing the book -- I expect it was -- that we were only 
    53        go to dedicate this much room in the book to this
    54        particular issue.  So, it was not put in in as much detail
    55        as this.  If you look at the booklet, there is a stack of
    56        figures there, a lot of which are nothing to do with food.
    57
    58   Q.   Is it correct that no routine antibiotics are used at
    59        Oasters?
    60        A.  I believe that to be the case.

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