Day 146 - 03 Jul 95 - Page 20
1 are not sterilizers". If she is going to say it in court,
2 she has to say it in her witness statement and she did not.
3
4 Paragraph 26, my Lord, here is the carcass washing that
5 I mentioned earlier. Once again, if we had known precisely
6 what it was that she was talking about then, of course, we
7 could have dealt with it, as Mr. Bone has dealt with it
8 here. He explains in great detail what it is that actually
9 happens on some occasions, preinspection, so far as carcass
10 washing is concerned.
11
12 Page 14, my Lord, paragraph 27. This is a new allegation,
13 completely new. Says she, "A consequence of carcass
14 washing is that it is not at all rare for meat inspectors
15 to be called into the boning hall after inspection 'to
16 condemn meat that has past the initial meat inspection on
17 the slaughter line'". Once the allegation is known about,
18 it can be dealt with. But this, my Lord, is completely
19 unforeseen. True it is there is general mention of carcass
20 washing before inspection in her statement, but nothing
21 whatever about the discovery of concealed faults in the
22 boning room.
23
24 Then, my Lord, from paragraph 28 on, down to really as far
25 as the end of paragraph 32 on page 18. Mr. Bone deals with
26 all Ms. Hovi's criticisms about the chilling system in
27 Jarretts. In particular, he is careful to explain how it
28 is that whatever criticisms Ms. Hovi might make about the
29 chillers in general do not apply and why they cannot apply
30 to the meat which is to be supplied to McKey's. Again, is
31 one to know that or anticipate it, unless one is
32 clairvoyant, from the single sentence in the written
33 statement, "The chillers were, as a rule, over filled, thus
34 leading to contamination and preventing proper chilling of
35 the carcasses".
36
37 My Lord, 33, the wall surfaces of the chillers; a
38 completely new allegation. There is nothing about wall
39 surfaces any more, as I have said, than there was about
40 services of the cutting boards in the boning room. No
41 hint, clue or suggestion about wall surfaces in the written
42 statement. 34, my Lord, on page 19, there is a statement
43 about over capacity in the written statement. There is
44 nothing about the size of the boning hall. There is no
45 allegation that it was too small or that it was
46 overcrowded.
47
48 35, my Lord, is the cutting boards. Then again a specific
49 allegation in 36 on page 20 about the implements and tools
50 in the boning room as opposed to the general allegation
51 about a shortage of facilities throughout the plant.
52
53 37, my Lord, the mince meat shift, which Mr. Morris himself
54 accepted when he was examining Ms. Hovi after my
55 intervention, was a new allegation. Tacked on to it, of
56 course, was the allegation that the local authorities,
57 paragraph 38 on page 21, were unaware of the mince shift,
58 as she called it. Then, my Lord, an allegation that the
59 boning room -- this is No. 39 -- the boning room supervisor
60 had an office next to the OVS. Whether it matters or not,
