Day 091 - 17 Feb 95 - Page 32
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2 Q. Is it Cotrimoxole?
3 A. Cotrimoxole, yes. That contains Trimethoprim and
4 I think it contains a different sulphur drug to the one we
5 use, so there is a slight difference.
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7 Q. You are aware of concern being expressed about the use of
8 that in the broiler industry having some effect on the
9 resistance in humans ---
10 A. I am not aware.
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12 Q. -- of the bacteria?
13 A. I am not aware of any concern that has ever been raised
14 about the use of that antibiotic in the broiler industry in
15 relation to human beings. I obviously would be concerned
16 of any evidence to suggest that there is bacterial
17 resistance in certain antibiotics. That is something we
18 have to be very aware of.
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20 Q. Could you get down the Defendants new documents, the latest
21 list. I think it is on the far right of the blue bundles.
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23 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I think Ms. Steel means the Defendants'
24 Supplementary List of Documents, bundle V.
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26 MS. STEEL: That is right. (To the witness): Could you turn
27 to document 2, page 11, please? Could you just read that,
28 please?
29 A. OK.
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31 Q. Is that the salmonella that you were referring to, or do
32 you not know?
33 A. The one that they are referring to here is the
34 Staphylococcal antibiotic which has been found to be a
35 major problem of some operating theatres in hospitals, and
36 is a very difficult organism to control, and one that has
37 shown multiple antibiotic resistance. The one where they
38 are referring to farming, they do not actually mention
39 about a bacterium, so I am not sure what they are referring
40 to.
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42 Q. I just realised I said page 11, I should have said page 12.
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44 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you got the right page?
45 A. I have page 12 now.
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Read page 11. The same point may crop up
48 there, but read 11.
49 A. OK.
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51 Q. Before Ms. Steel asks you another question, is the problem
52 referred to, or alleged in the penultimate paragraph, the
53 one you just referred to, the operating theatre problem on
54 page 11?
55 A. Yes, that was the one I was referring to. That is very
56 specifically a human operating type theatre hospital
57 situation.
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59 MS. STEEL: You have not heard of any concerns in relation to
60 that then, in relation to feeding antibiotics in to
