Day 208 - 24 Jan 96 - Page 64
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2 Q. -- would know from visual checks?
3 A. Yes.
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5 Q. Whereas inexperienced staff may not be able to?
6 A. I would say that they might -- they may not have known,
7 but they would be told, yes.
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9 Q. The visual check, was that made from breaking a burger or
10 what?
11 A. For me, you mean?
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13 Q. Yes.
14 A. I could just see by looking. You do not need to break
15 it open. So, when I took the temperature and it was too
16 low, then I broke it open to check and you could see all
17 the blood inside it.
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19 MS. STEEL: Sorry, just to clarify, so you did not see the blood
20 until you broke it open?
21 A. No, no, you could see blood on top, bits of blood on
22 top of the burger as well. When you broke it, you could
23 see it was like red inside.
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25 Q. Right.
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27 MR. MORRIS: You have never looked inside toasters, have you, in
28 the work ------
29 A. I would not have a clue where to start, no.
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31 Q. Right. Buns, paragraph 27 of your statement, you say:
32 "Buns have a four day shelf life and they can be frozen
33 within that time and put into the freezer" ---
34 A. Yes.
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36 Q. -- "if they are not going to be used"?
37 A. If too many have been ordered, yes.
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39 Q. Right. You say if ever you saw an out of date product you
40 would inform the shift Manager. Have you actually done
41 that?
42 A. Yes, I quite regularly did that.
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44 Q. Sorry, we are just reading. The buns, is that the same as
45 muffins?
46 A. Your dates, you mean, as in dated or -- muffins are
47 frozen when they come in, so they be different.
48 Again -----
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50 Q. So what are the muffins? Is that the Egg McMuffin?
51 A. Yes, muffins would be used for, like, egg muffins and
52 Big Breakfast and things like that.
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54 Q. But the muffin is the bun for the -----
55 A. Yes, but it is -- it comes in the stores already frozen
56 so it is with the frozen stuff in any case, so it is not --
57 it has not got -- sorry.
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59 Q. Right, sorry. On page 121 in your PRs -- it is in the file
60 volume 1 -- under "Breakfast quality", it is the second
