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     1        rejection?
     2        A.  If they saw that they would certainly reject it, yes.
     3
     4   Q.   Has that ever been reported to you or come to your
     5        knowledge?
     6        A.  On delivery of product, no.
     7
     8   Q.   So the mould on buns problem -----
     9
    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  What problem?
    11
    12   MR. MORRIS:  I am going to ask.
    13
    14   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I am looking at the abstract.  Leaving
    15        aside ----
    16
    17   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I am turning that up now.
    18
    19   MR. RAMPTON:  I invite your Lordship's attention to tab 5 and,
    20        in particular, to page 6 and the Answer to the Request for
    21        Particulars.  Leaving aside foreign bodies which I have
    22        argued previously have nothing to do with food poisoning
    23        anyway, we are confined to meat and in particular to
    24        chicken and minced beef.  Buns, milk shakes, lettuce and
    25        tomatoes have nothing to do with the case.
    26
    27   MR. MORRIS:  The mould on buns problem has been identified by
    28        some of our witnesses.
    29
    30   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Would you refer me to them, please, in
    31        relation to food poisoning?
    32
    33   MR. MORRIS:  Well, it is our employment witnesses who have
    34        identified it.
    35
    36   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  But in relation to food poisoning.
    37
    38   MS. STEEL:   It is all about hygiene.
    39
    40   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I appreciate that, but I want it so that
    41        I can read it as an allegation of food poisoning.
    42        I appreciate when we talk about sewage on kitchen floors
    43        and sweeping it outside, if it is an employment witness's
    44        statement, I can understand that.
    45
    46   MR. MORRIS:  In our employment witness's statement No. 14, Anne
    47        Tobin.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just read from it because my bundle is in my
    50        room. 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  For example, there are two paragraphs which may be 
    53        relevant that I can see immediately: "At the Strand store
    54        while working on the Big Mac dressings I observed that the
    55        lettuce supplied to me was in poor condition, going brown
    56        at the edges and very soggy. I pointed this out to the
    57        grill team leader who shrugged, 'It is often like that, get
    58        on with in.' The whole bag of rotting lettuce was used up
    59        in the Big Macs. On another occasion, also in the strand
    60        Store, I was passed a tray of toasted buns to dress.  At

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