Day 104 - 15 Mar 95 - Page 58


     
     1        strains of food poisoning?
     2        A.  Yes, I think are you extrapolating it too far.  I think
     3        we are talking about therapeutic antibiotics here; we are
     4        not talking about growth promoters.
     5
     6   Q.   Therapeutic, yes.  Is it true there are about 30,000
     7        reported cases of Salmonella infections each year of which
     8        about 2 per cent require hospital admission?
     9        A.  If that is what the report says I would not dispute it.
    10
    11   Q.   You do not know what the figures are roughly yourself?
    12        A.  I have to go on figures like that.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you do not know, say so.  If do know, and
    15        can add anything beyond your own knowledge, please let us
    16        know, Dr. Pattison?
    17        A.  No.
    18
    19   MR. MORRIS:  Is it true that for this Salmonella type
    20        typhimurium DT04 the study concluded that most cases of
    21        infection were linked with foods bought from take-aways,
    22        restaurants and bakeries and may be caused by undercooked
    23        meat?
    24        A.  If that is what the report says I can only accept its
    25        findings.
    26
    27   Q.   I am asking you because you have said you have seen this
    28        report or you have heard about it, whatever.  Are you aware
    29        that that was their conclusion?
    30        A.  I can only accept that if that is their conclusion,
    31        I have no personal, I cannot add any more to it.
    32
    33   Q.   But are you aware that that is their conclusion?
    34        A.  Well if you say so, yes.
    35
    36   Q.   I am asking you if you know.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Before it was put to you:  "Were you aware
    39        that was their conclusion"?
    40        A.  I was not to be honest, no, of that particular.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  So Sun Valley is not monitoring these kinds of
    43        reports in any kind of detail; you just hear about it
    44        through rumour, do you not?
    45        A.  No.  What I did say, and what I have said already in
    46        court, is that Sun Valley is collaborating with the local
    47        public health laboratory in a survey which it is conducting
    48        into the presence or absence of Salmonella typhimurium type
    49        104.  We are collaborating in a full and open way and
    50        providing any samples that they wish to take on a regular 
    51        basis and I do not think we could do more than that. 
    52 
    53   Q.   It is true that some people have died from that Salmonella
    54        food poisoning, have they not, that particular strain?
    55        A.  It is true, yes.
    56
    57   Q.   When the Sun Valley process plant receives bins of chicken
    58        meat, when it receives 50 bins or something of GR light or
    59        something, and it has a high temperature and a low
    60        temperature and an average temperature?

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