Day 148 - 05 Jul 95 - Page 49
1 to know that she might criticise the plant for finding out
2 contamination at a later stage if she had alleged that
3 contamination was being missed at an early stage because of
4 high pressure water before inspection, which she does in
5 her statement. She said: "This practice is dangerous to
6 high pressure water as it can lead to inspectors missing
7 pathological changes and leads to airborne contamination".
8 I think Mr. Rampton said something like, "Oh, they were not
9 to know that then she might say that the pathological
10 changes or contamination may be discovered at a later
11 stage". Obviously, if they miss it at an early stage, it
12 is implicit that they may discover it later on.
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14 Just carrying on through the document -- sorry, that would
15 apply to paragraph 27 on page 14. Moving on as quickly as
16 possible .....
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18 MS. STEEL: 29 is down as an N question mark and clearly this
19 is with reference to the sheets, HACCP sheets, that were
20 disclosed by the Plaintiffs and it is not new. If they
21 wanted to make a comment about that they could have made a
22 comment about that, and, in fact, Mr. Bennett did give
23 evidence about the checks that were made, starting on
24 page -- he talked about the boning room temperature checks
25 on page 21 of day 104 at line 51, and again he talked about
26 the temperature checks on page 24 from line 53 onwards.
27 Again, that is something that was -- it was in Ms. Hovi's
28 statement anyway, but she expanded upon it in the witness
29 box in response to the documents disclosed by the
30 Plaintiffs, which they said asserted something different to
31 what she had said and also in response to what Mr. Bennett
32 said when he was in the witness box.
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34 MR. MORRIS: It follows on pages 16 and 17 of the Bone statement
35 a lot of N question marks which I will not go into. I
36 believe they are all matters that were related to documents
37 disclosed before Mr. Bennett and Mr. Bennett had had the
38 opportunity to comment on and probably did. I cannot
39 remember exactly now whether he did or not.
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41 The point 33 on page 18, most of that is general hygiene
42 matter. But, as far as the specific thing about the silica
43 ceiling on the 8th line or 7th line down, the only thing
44 I would say about that is that the witness actually says it
45 probably did occur, that there were problems with the
46 ceiling. So there is not much point in calling him just to
47 agree with our witness.
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49 Anyway, the general point is one that was adequately
50 canvassed, certainly alluded to in her statement and
51 canvassed with Mr. Bennett about the through rate and
52 whether the chillers are over-filled, and things like that,
53 and whether they are touching the edges. Obviously
54 Mr. Rampton said something like, "Just because they are
55 over-filled" -- she said, "Chillers were, as a rule,
56 over-filled leading to contact contamination and preventing
57 proper chilling of the carcasses", and then he complained
58 that he had had no notice that she would say they were
59 touching the walls. Well, if something is over-filled,
60 then that certainly must be the implication that that is a
