Day 008 - 07 Jul 94 - Page 20


     
     1
         Q.   Is he employed by McDonald's?
     2        A.  No.
 
     3   Q.   Is he any kind of McDonald's agent?
              A.  No.
     4
         Q.   A McDonald's stooge or pawn?
     5        A.  No.
 
     6   Q.   Does he have an independent career as a public health
              officer?
     7        A.  Yes.
 
     8   Q.   He gives some history of the controversy, if we can call
              it that, "The Public Health Roots", which is very
     9        interesting, but we need not read.  Over the page we see
              this.  This is page 61, I hope, is it?
    10        A.  Yes, 61.
 
    11   Q.  "Disposables and Disease Prevention.  The social and
              environmental impacts of disposables for foodservice and
    12        packaging cannot be fairly evaluated outside the context
              of disease prevention".  Do you agree or disagree with
    13        that statement?
              A.  I absolutely agree with that.
    14
         Q.   "Foodborne disease is rampant in the United States --
    15        indeed in the world.  The Canadian researcher Dr. Ewen
              Todd estimates the incidence of disease in the U.S. to be
    16        greater than 12 million cases annually, at a cost
              approaching $10 billion a year.
    17
              His is a conservative estimate.  Food and Drug
    18        Administration microbiologists Dr. Douglas Archer and Dr.
              John Kvenberg have placed the range of disease between 24
    19        and 81 million cases per year.
 
    20        These are not just self-limited stomach upsets.  For
              people at greatest risk -- the elderly, the very young,
    21        the ill and the immune suppressed -- these are life
              threatening episodes.
    22
              For the rest of us, too, there may be serious
    23        consequences. Evidence is growing that these bouts of
              gastroenteritis may be the cause of chronic, debilitating
    24        diseases,  such as reactive arthritis".
 
    25        Now here, perhaps the important part of this document
              begins -- well, that last part is very important obviously 
    26         -- but this is what matters for this case:  "One of the 
              principal causes of foodborne disease, according to the 
    27        Centers for Disease Control," what are the Centers for
              Disease Control, do you know?
    28        A.  No, I do not.
 
    29   Q.   "... is improperly sanitized utensils.  Dishwashing
              machines often do not operate properly, or the dishwasher
    30        does not know how to operate them, or does not handle the
              washed dishes in a sanitary manner, often handling them

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