Day 309 - 03 Dec 96 - Page 30
1 there.
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3 MR. RAMPTON: The right comparison to make -- it is most
4 conveniently seen if it is helpful -- is if one looks at
5 page 8 under (1) for the quarterpounder. In 1991, or up to
6 February 1991, the quarterpounders got 104 seconds on the
7 clam shell, and then over the page 1991 after 14th February
8 it went up to 111 to 115.
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, and there was a more or less
11 commensurate increase with the ten to ones?
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13 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, it is. I am sorry, yes, that is right, from
14 37 to 41 to 40 to 44.
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16 MR. MORRIS: I am not sure. The line at the bottom of page 9
17 which says, "The position in the US is no different", if
18 that is a statement of fact; it is not true because, of
19 course, the temperatures are much less in the US. The
20 Operational Manual says 64 degrees, for example, cooking,
21 minimum temperature.
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23 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you remind me, the figures for length of
24 time, which is what you put in, Mr. Rampton, on pages 8 and
25 9, did the standard go on to say to achieve a temperature
26 of so many degrees, either surface or internal?
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28 MR. RAMPTON: May I just get my file?
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. When one comes to chicken one has so
31 many minutes, or minutes and seconds, at a certain
32 temperature, which I assume is the temperature of the
33 shortening.
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35 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, my Lord. I think that is right. It is not
36 the temperature of the chicken, I am sure. There would not
37 be much left of it.
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39 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There would not be much there to eat if it
40 was, but if what we had was all the evidence about
41 calibration of the grills and...
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43 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, I apologise for not having spent an awful lot
44 of time on these questions.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think the position was, the grills are
47 obviously set at a certain temperature, be they clam shell
48 or flat, which, of course, is related to the internal
49 temperature of the meat in that if you have a patty on the
50 grill for the prescribed length of time its internal
51 temperature should reach what McDonald's would say is a
52 safe level.
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54 MR. RAMPTON: That is right.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: But there was -----
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58 MR. RAMPTON: There is evidence, my Lord, but at the moment --
59 maybe Mr. Kenny -- at the moment I cannot ----
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