Day 100 - 09 Mar 95 - Page 39


     
     1        products look and taste the same, do you not?
     2        A.  Yes, for most products.
     3
     4   Q.   So that is something that the company feels is significant
     5        or important?
     6        A.  It is, yes, part and parcel of the way that McDonald's
     7        operates, yes.
     8
     9   MR. MORRIS:  You have specifications for what McKey's should be
    10        doing to satisfy you that it is a responsible supplier,
    11        yes?
    12        A.  No, that is not quite right.  We have specifications
    13        for what the finished product that a supplier supplies to
    14        us should be.  My department, as a Quality Assurance
    15        Department, then works with those suppliers to ensure that
    16        they have adequate Quality Assurance programmes in place so
    17        that they meet -- so that they will meet the specifications
    18        that we ask of them.
    19
    20   Q.   Let us go to another document, if I can find it.  I have a
    21        spare copy.  It is the McDonald's Fact Card, MacFact Card
    22        No. 3.  I will give this to the witness.  We will try to
    23        find the reference.
    24
    25   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is it in the nutrition information file -- is
    26        it pink VI or something like that?
    27
    28   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do not think it is in the nutrition
    29        bundles, as far as I can recall.
    30
    31   MS. STEEL:  It is in the Defendants' document No. 197 which is
    32        bundle VI.  (To the witness):  It is 197 but the tab has
    33        only got "97" on it.  It is the fifth page.
    34        A.  Yes.
    35
    36   MR. MORRIS:  One is dated May 1989 and one is dated January
    37        1990, yes?
    38        A.  Yes.
    39
    40   Q.   There are two in a row, in fact?
    41        A.  Yes, I have them both now.
    42
    43   Q.   I cannot see any difference, but certainly they are both
    44        the same in the bit that is relevant.  It says in the
    45        middle:  "All McDonald's beef comes from EEC approved
    46        European suppliers.  Every consumption of beef arriving at
    47        the meat plant", that would be in this country McKey's or
    48        Scunthorpe, yes, for beef ------
    49        A.  McKey's Milton Keynes or McKey's Scunthorpe, yes.
    50 
    51   Q.    Yes -- "... is subject to a total of 36 separate quality 
    52        control checks carried by a team of qualified 
    53        technologists".  Those are the ones which you have appended
    54        to your statement?
    55        A.  I think they are appended to my statement.
    56
    57   Q.   It is now more checks, is it not, it has gone up ---
    58        A.  That is right.
    59
    60   Q.   -- since 1989.  "If a consignment should fail on any one

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