Day 146 - 03 Jul 95 - Page 20


     
     1        are not sterilizers".  If she is going to say it in court,
     2        she has to say it in her witness statement and she did not.
     3
     4        Paragraph 26, my Lord, here is the carcass washing that
     5        I mentioned earlier.  Once again, if we had known precisely
     6        what it was that she was talking about then, of course, we
     7        could have dealt with it, as Mr. Bone has dealt with it
     8        here.  He explains in great detail what it is that actually
     9        happens on some occasions, preinspection, so far as carcass
    10        washing is concerned.
    11
    12        Page 14, my Lord, paragraph 27.  This is a new allegation,
    13        completely new.  Says she, "A consequence of carcass
    14        washing is that it is not at all rare for meat inspectors
    15        to be called into the boning hall after inspection 'to
    16        condemn meat that has past the initial meat inspection on
    17        the slaughter line'".  Once the allegation is known about,
    18        it can be dealt with.  But this, my Lord, is completely
    19        unforeseen.  True it is there is general mention of carcass
    20        washing before inspection in her statement, but nothing
    21        whatever about the discovery of concealed faults in the
    22        boning room.
    23
    24        Then, my Lord, from paragraph 28 on, down to really as far
    25        as the end of paragraph 32 on page 18.  Mr. Bone deals with
    26        all Ms. Hovi's criticisms about the chilling system in
    27        Jarretts.  In particular, he is careful to explain how it
    28        is that whatever criticisms Ms. Hovi might make about the
    29        chillers in general do not apply and why they cannot apply
    30        to the meat which is to be supplied to McKey's.  Again, is
    31        one to know that or anticipate it, unless one is
    32        clairvoyant, from the single sentence in the written
    33        statement, "The chillers were, as a rule, over filled, thus
    34        leading to contamination and preventing proper chilling of
    35        the carcasses".
    36
    37        My Lord, 33, the wall surfaces of the chillers; a
    38        completely new allegation.  There is nothing about wall
    39        surfaces any more, as I have said, than there was about
    40        services of the cutting boards in the boning room.  No
    41        hint, clue or suggestion about wall surfaces in the written
    42        statement.  34, my Lord, on page 19, there is a statement
    43        about over capacity in the written statement.  There is
    44        nothing about the size of the boning hall.  There is no
    45        allegation that it was too small or that it was
    46        overcrowded.
    47
    48        35, my Lord, is the cutting boards.  Then again a specific
    49        allegation in 36 on page 20 about the implements and tools
    50        in the boning room as opposed to the general allegation 
    51        about a shortage of facilities throughout the plant. 
    52 
    53        37, my Lord, the mince meat shift, which Mr. Morris himself
    54        accepted when he was examining Ms. Hovi after my
    55        intervention, was a new allegation.  Tacked on to it, of
    56        course, was the allegation that the local authorities,
    57        paragraph 38 on page 21, were unaware of the mince shift,
    58        as she called it.  Then, my Lord, an allegation that the
    59        boning room -- this is No. 39 -- the boning room supervisor
    60        had an office next to the OVS.  Whether it matters or not,

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