Day 129 - 25 May 95 - Page 09
1 MS. STEEL: As I say, if Mr. Rampton will provide the answer to
2 the witness, it does make it rather pointless asking the
3 question.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Unless you have some other information to
6 gainsay what Mr. Rampton said, we have to observe legal
7 privilege, whatever else we observe in this case.
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9 MS. STEEL: I can understand that if we started getting into the
10 nitty-gritty about what the report said about what the
11 cause of some incident was, or something like that, but
12 I was not anywhere near that. I really do not see I should
13 not have been entitled to ask that question, which was
14 asked in the end, but when it was too late to get an
15 answer.
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17 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is not a line of questioning you could
18 pursue in any event.
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20 MS. STEEL (To the witness): Have you read the statement of
21 Mr. Clark from Strathclyde University?
22 A. No, I have not.
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24 Q. If he advised the Company to review cooking times and
25 temperatures -- he does in his statement -- do you know
26 whether the Company has taken any action as a result of
27 that advice?
28 A. I do not, well, I do not really know how to answer that
29 because I am not quite sure which bit of it -----
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not think you can. Do you know any more
32 than you have told us now about revising cooking times,
33 that cooking times and/or temperatures were advised once
34 after Preston; there may have been a second time but you
35 cannot now recall. That is, in a nutshell, what you have
36 told us?
37 A. That is correct.
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39 Q. Can you add to that?
40 A. No, I cannot.
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42 MS. STEEL: McDonald's have admitted that, "In or before
43 November 1994 at McDonald's in Shrewsbury three year old
44 Juliette McIntyre was served under-cooked chicken McNuggets
45 which contained salmonella. The McNuggets were tested by
46 local health official and declared unfit for human
47 consumption. As a result of this incident, McDonald's
48 stated that procedures for cooking chicken were being
49 reviewed, in part due to staff confusion over the use of
50 mechanical timing devices for the cooking of such
51 product". You were involved in investigation into that
52 incident, were you not?
53 A. Mark Hathaway, who works for me, was.
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55 Q. Mr. Kenny was asked about what investigations were carried
56 out into that and he said: "I did not carry out the
57 investigations into that; it was a colleague of mine who
58 did the investigations". He was asked: "It was your
59 department?" Then he said: "It was not; it was not led by
60 my department actually. At the time it was led by someone
