Day 099 - 08 Mar 95 - Page 50
1 Valley primary processing plants.
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3 Q. It says there foreign objects, three?
4 A. Yes.
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6 Q. One does not know in what part -- I suppose one cannot tell
7 from this -- of the meat that was found?
8 A. Not from the summary sheet. You would have to go
9 deeper and look at the -----
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11 Q. No, I am not concerned to do that. Are you satisfied, by
12 and large, so far as you can be, with Sun Valley's
13 performance in the removal of foreign objects or foreign
14 bodies before they reach your customers?
15 A. Yes, we have an additional check as well as the visual
16 check by the meat inspectors which is a bone detector or a
17 foreign object detector on the finished product. So, as
18 far as technology allows, we feel we do the best possible
19 job that can be done.
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21 Q. What sort of a instrument is this bone or foreign object
22 detector?
23 A. It is similar actually to the instrument that they have
24 as you come into the courts, when you put your bag through
25 the screen, the detector, to see if there is anything
26 inside your bag.
27
28 Q. You and I are not supposed to know how that works. Is it a
29 kind of X-ray machine?
30 A. Exactly, yes.
31
32 Q. Would that pick up, therefore, non-metal objects?
33 A. Yes.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We may not be supposed to know how they work,
36 but if you stand around enough off -- the hoop we cannot
37 see, that just makes a noise; is that what yours do or do
38 they do like the bag inspection where you can actually see
39 what is inside?
40 A. There is actually a television screen and it picks up
41 differences in density, basically, is the way that it
42 works, so that it will highlight objects that have a
43 different density to that of the flesh. So, we eliminate
44 additional bones that are not picked up through the
45 inspection process.
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47 MR. RAMPTON: You say "we" do you mean McDonald's?
48 A. No, Sun Valley.
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50 Q. Is the metal detector a different instrument?
51 A. It is a completely separate instrument, yes.
52
53 Q. What is the physics of that? How does that work?
54 A. That picks up -- it works on ferrous and non-ferrous
55 objects, depending on the sensitivity of the machine. You
56 can detect down to different limits of detection. I think
57 we work to about one-and-a-half mil.
58
59 Q. But to come back to my original question are you, as far as
60 you can be, satisfied with Sun Valley's record in picking
