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1 Q. What other countries does Sun Valley get poultry from to
2 supply to McDonald's?
3 A. We have approved suppliers. They must all be visited
4 and audited by ourselves to get approval. We have
5 suppliers in France, about four I think, we have two
6 suppliers in Holland, and those are all.
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8 Q. Does all that meat go into together or does that go back to
9 those specific countries for use in McDonald's?
10 A. It depends on certain individual requirements. For
11 example, the English meat is always used for production for
12 McDonald's product in England. Some of the other countries
13 will accept meat from any source in which case it can be
14 mixed once it has gone through the quality control checks
15 in the factory.
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17 Q. So all the chicken products used by McDonald's in this
18 country would be from English chickens?
19 A. That is correct.
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21 Q. Right. But in McDonald's in Holland and France, they are
22 taken from other countries?
23 A. Yes, as I say, there is only France and Holland are
24 suppliers anyway.
25
26 Q. What is the reason why the English company only takes the
27 English chickens?
28 A. It is a matter of tradition that when we had the
29 factory for producing the chicken sandwich and the chicken
30 Nuggets in England, we used solely UK suppliers of meat and
31 when we moved, had to move, our facility to France, we
32 decided that we would stick to the same system because it
33 was satisfactory for all parties.
34
35 Q. Were you McDonald's first chicken suppliers in this country
36 when they started using chickens?
37 A. Yes, we were.
38
39 Q. Could you get Defendants' documents Supplementary List
40 No. 6?
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Did you say 6?
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44 MS. STEEL: It is Supplementary List and then it is No. 6.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The document is No. 6.
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48 MS. STEEL: Yes.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is probably Bundle, 1 Supplementary 1, it
51 is a fat one.
52
53 MS. STEEL: Can you turn to document No. 6, please, then to page
54 21 within that document which is very small at the bottom
55 of the page? It has got a picture of a potato on the page
56 before it. It should be headed: "Buying British from
57 french fries to apple pie"?
58 A. Yes.
59
60 Q. If you could jut look underneath, in the right-hand column
