Day 100 - 09 Mar 95 - Page 40
1 check it will be rejected by McDonald's." It is not true,
2 is it?
3 A. Well, it is true, yes.
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5 Q. On the checks, the 36 checks, specified by McKey's when
6 meat arrives, if they find something that arrives outside
7 of their specifications, it is automatically rejected?
8 A. Yes. If you look at the checks, I think you need to
9 look at the -----
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11 Q. And McDonald's would not want to touch it?
12 A. You will need to look at the list of checks alongside
13 this document to see what you are talking about.
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15 Q. I was going to ask you. I only want to refer to a couple
16 of them anyway. So, it is not true, is it, that meat
17 arriving at four degrees, over four degrees, is rejected by
18 McKey's, is it?
19 A. Well, it is true, yes. If meat arrives outside -- I am
20 not sure if it is four or five degrees -----
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22 Q. Their specification is four degrees?
23 A. OK, well, if it falls outside their specification they
24 will reject it.
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26 Q. What about if they find out that there is a count higher
27 than 10,000,000?
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think we ought to look -- I appreciate it
30 may lengthen matters -- at the list which has the 36 on it,
31 then you can put to him, because that appears to me to be
32 what the MacFact card is referring to.
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34 MR. MORRIS: Mr. Kenny, you have your list of checks, have you,
35 at the back of your statement?
36 A. Yes, I have it out.
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38 Q. You can have them out. That is fine.
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40 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have appendix 1 or A, have you?
41 A. Yes, I have it.
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43 MR. MORRIS: So if, for example, on No. 2 the meat arrives over
44 four degrees, which is their specification, it will be
45 rejected?
46 A. Definitely, yes.
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48 Q. If meat arrives, we have heard -- I think it was yesterday
49 -- with over 5,000,000 bacterial count, it will be
50 rejected?
51 A. That is not wholly accurate, what you have just said,
52 no.
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54 Q. It will not be rejected?
55 A. There is a possibility that it may not be rejected.
56 That is an internal McKey specification. If you look at
57 the list of checks to which the Fact leaflet refers, it
58 actually refers to microbiological analysis. It does not
59 say if it fails McKey's internal coding structure; it says
60 if it fails the microbiological analysis. So, they are not
