Day 094 - 01 Mar 95 - Page 28
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2 Q. Are you aware that the Centre for Disease Control named
3 McDonald's as the source of the outbreak?
4 A. As a possible source, a direct link you just read the
5 statement, yes.
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7 Q. You have not read it, have you?
8 A. No.
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10 Q. Has McDonald's got a problem about admitting responsibility
11 for problems as a result of the consumption of its food by
12 customers? Do you have a problem on that?
13 A. No, we do not.
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15 Q. Would you like to -- we will have to find this document, I
16 suppose.
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18 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yellow XII, section D, No. 14.
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20 MR. MORRIS: That is Mr. Rummel, is it not?
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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24 MR. MORRIS: I was referring to the Defendants Second
25 Supplementary List No. 25, the actual report.
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27 MR. RAMPTON: I wonder where this gets us, my Lord, I really do.
28 I have sat here quite patiently a number of times when
29 this has happened -----
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where are you going on now? Are you going on
32 -- is this related to your last question, whether
33 McDonald's have a problem admitting it?
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35 MR. MORRIS: OK.
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37 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Because you can comment to me about that when
38 we have had the witnesses and I have heard what they may
39 have conceded, what they have not, and what I make of it.
40 I will be able to form my own view as to whether it is a
41 stonewall when in difficulty and press forward when doing
42 well situation or not.
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44 MR. MORRIS: Do you regularly pay the medical bills and related
45 claims of individuals who have suffered from food poisoning
46 after eating at one of your stores?
47 A. No. I do not know what you mean by "regularly". If we
48 know, like in this case, we are obviously did, if we feel
49 that there might have been a possibility, we did; we do.
50 If that happens again we will do it again.
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52 Q. Are you aware that was the first such outbreak of the
53 E.coli infection and disease, except for a sporadic case of
54 haemorrhagic colitis in 1975, forgetting that, this was the
55 first such outbreak of such a disease ever recorded?
56 A. That is correct, I am aware of, yes.
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58 Q. If McDonald's has such high industry standards, how come
59 this disease first appeared in customers eating at a
60 McDonald's store?
