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1 right?
2 A. I could find nothing in my record.
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4 Q. If some people had actually been poisoned by McDonald's in
5 the Isle of Wight, would you expect to know about it?
6 A. Most certainly, yes.
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8 Q. Would you expect there to be a record of it?
9 A. Well, certainly food poisoning has to be reported to
10 the Environmental Health Department so we would certainly
11 hear about it.
12
13 Q. Does McDonald's routinely destroy records of food poisoning
14 incidents so that people do not get to hear about it?
15 A. As far as I am aware, we have never destroyed any
16 records of customer complaints.
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18 Q. This is not just a complaint, this is asserted to be an
19 actual case?
20 A. Or cases, yes.
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22 Q. The final question: I am not myself at all certain what
23 relevance it has to this case, but never mind. Have you
24 been asked to calculate the number of chickens used for
25 McDonald's purposes in this country -- I say "this country"
26 I mean the United Kingdom -- in the course of a year?
27 A. I was asked last year, yes.
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29 Q. Rather than have you repeat it, will you look at paragraph
30 7 of your second statement?
31 A. Yes.
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33 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have updated that, have you not?
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35 MR. RAMPTON: I think you have, yes. My Lord, I cannot find
36 that.
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38 MR. JUSTICE BELL: That is in the statement in volume IX, yellow
39 IX, tab 9A.
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41 MR. RAMPTON: I am grateful to your Lordship.
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43 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is just that I was looking at it overnight
44 and I remember.
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46 MR. RAMPTON (To the witness): It is towards the back,
47 Mr. Kenny.
48 A. Yes.
49
50 Q. I think you give the figure as at the end of June last year
51 as 27-and-a-half million chickens per year for Europe; is
52 that right?
53 A. Raised by Sun Valley for the use for Europe, yes.
54
55 Q. For McDonald's use in Europe?
56 A. Yes.
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58 Q. Are you able to tell us what proportion of that, roughly
59 speaking, is likely to be UK use?
60 A. The first extra statement I made was exactly that,
