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     1        comes into contact with the food items that were sold after
     2        they had been cooked, I mean, in the store?
     3        A.  Are you referring to wraps?
     4
     5   Q.   It might be wraps, it might be boxes, I do not know.  What
     6        about the french fries, what would they come in?
     7        A.  French fries, a small portion is bagged and the large
     8        portion is boxed.  The small hamburgers are both wrapped.
     9
    10   Q.   So that is all paper?
    11        A.  That is all paper.
    12
    13   Q.   I am going, of course, to ask you about recycling in a good
    14        deal more detail later on, Mr. Oakley.  To what extent, so
    15        far as you are concerned, is it possible to use recycled
    16        paper content in those wrappings or cartons which come into
    17        contact with the food?
    18        A.  The wrap being into contact with the food?
    19
    20   Q.   Yes.
    21        A.  Well, if you take a french fry carton or an apple pie
    22        carton or a Chicken McNuggetts box, for example, the
    23        recycled content of each of those cartons will be 72 per
    24        cent.  The outside of the carton, the part that touches the
    25        food, would be pure virgin material and the outside of the
    26        box would be pure virgin material, but the inside portion,
    27        the 72 per cent, would be recycled material.
    28
    29   Q.   Do we in this country have any regulation or law which
    30        prevents us from putting recycled paper into contact with
    31        food?
    32        A.  Yes.
    33
    34   Q.   We do in this country?
    35        A.  We do.
    36
    37   Q.   Does that also apply in other parts of the world or not?
    38        A.  What we tend to do in McDonald's, because so much of
    39        the packaging is produced for European use, we tend to move
    40        towards the highest common denominator which in this case
    41        is Germany.  Therefore, most of the packages that we use
    42        are used in this way because German law requires it.
    43
    44   Q.   Yes, I see.
    45        A.  Therefore, the rest of Europe would use the same
    46        package.
    47
    48   Q.   Nowadays, at any rate, is the European packaging, as it
    49        were, all centrally sourced?
    50        A.  Yes, it is, through Perseco. 
    51 
    52   Q.   Whose Head Office now is in Langley in Buckinghamshire in 
    53        this country?
    54        A.  That is correct.
    55
    56   Q.   That is for its whole European operation?
    57        A.  That is their pan European office.
    58
    59   Q.   I think they used to be in Holland in?
    60        A.  They were at Utrecht in Holland originally, yes.

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