Day 079 - 27 Jan 95 - Page 62


     
     1        A.  What, quarters or tens?
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  We are on finished products now.
     4        A.  303 ten to the pound burgers in a box; 106 quarter
     5        pounders in a box.
     6
     7   MS. STEEL:  So you take one out of each box?
     8        A.  Each box on the top layer.  It is statistical
     9        sampling.  You cannot take everything you have made and
    10        take everything back through the laboratory.  It is all
    11        worked out on statistics.
    12
    13   Q.   So all the boxes, they have extra burgers in them to take
    14        account of that, do they?
    15        A.  Extra burgers?  You mean on the box count?
    16
    17   Q.   After they have been packed -- I mean presumably when
    18        McDonald's buy them they buy a set number per box?
    19        A.  They buy a weight.  In actual fact they buy a weight.
    20        They buy a 30 pound box.  We try very hard to give
    21        McDonald's a range of 303 to 106 and 104 -- I beg your
    22        pardon, 303 to 306 and 104 to 106 and the scales work that
    23        way.
    24
    25   Q.   So the burgers are taken out before or after they have been
    26        weighed?
    27        A.  They are taken out after they have been weighed on
    28        dispatch, on the dispatch dock.
    29
    30   Q.   You said they are emulsified to get a maximum distribution
    31        and then you wait to see what grows from it.  How long does
    32        that take?
    33        A.  24 hours.
    34
    35   Q.   24 hours.  Is that how you test for E.coli?
    36        A.  Yes, it is basically.
    37
    38   Q.   It is?
    39        A.  Yes.
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  So you test one burger sample completed patty, yes,
    42        you say, out of a batch?
    43        A.  No.
    44
    45   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Out of a box?
    46        A.  Out of each box on the top layer of a pallet.
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  Four boxes on a pallet, six boxes?
    49        A.  Six.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can work that out later. 
    52 
    53   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, I understand that.  So how many samples ----
    54
    55   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can you just tell me, because I cannot
    56        remember everything, I have got Preston in mind, what other
    57        outbreaks or incidents of E.coli might possibly be
    58        connected with McKey Foods?
    59
    60   MS. STEEL:  Can I just say that in actual fact the fact sheet on

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