Day 099 - 08 Mar 95 - Page 44
1 MR. RAMPTON: We are looking at the one where I started ---
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is the beginning of tab 8.
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5 MR. RAMPTON: -- of which Ms. Steel was said to have a legible
6 copy. The second table headed laboratory analysis. The
7 right-hand column is headed "Percentage above 500,000", is
8 it not, Mr. Kenny?
9 A. That is right, yes.
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11 Q. We can see, if we look at GR dark which is the second line
12 down in the table under the heading "high" which is the
13 first column -----
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15 MR. MORRIS: Sorry, we are on the front page of this document,
16 not the second page.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is right, the very first one. The
19 second table under "laboratory analysis".
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21 MR. MORRIS: OK.
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23 MR. RAMPTON: It is dated 6th October 1989 and it records the
24 results of the week commencing 17th September 1989.
25 (To the witness): Can I ask you this, Mr. Kenny? You see
26 there is a date stamped in the right-hand corner of the
27 document. It is probably 8th, it might be 18th, but
28 probably 8th October 1989, is that a receipt stamp?
29 A. That is receipt in our office, yes.
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31 Q. So that is McDonald's stamp?
32 A. Yes.
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34 Q. What I want to draw your attention to is this: Take it
35 from me, unless you want to look at it, that all of the
36 figures there are well below 500,000, except for one which
37 I think is the first entry against GR dark, do you see?
38 A. Yes.
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40 Q. Which is, I think, 770,000?
41 A. Yes.
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43 Q. Given that in that sampling process there was one recorded
44 GR dark reading or result of over 500,000, bearing in mind
45 500,000 is Sun Valley's own precept and that yours, I
46 forget now, was 5,000,000, I think, was it not?
47 A. That was the maximum, yes.
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49 Q. Would that give you any cause for concern that there was
50 770,000 in one sample of dark meat?
51 A. No, in our specification we allow for two out of five
52 samples to be above that limit.
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54 MR. JUSTICE BELL: These are made up in France, are they?
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56 MR. RAMPTON: No, these were not, my Lord. These are preFrance,
57 I think, are they not?
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I only ask that because of the way they do
60 the 7.7 or 1.3 with a comma rather than a full stop.
