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     1        to be used, No. 8 imported beef (fresh or frozen)."
     2        I would like you to look at the document.  Can you show his
     3        Lordship first.  Have you seen anything like that before?
     4        A.  Yes, I have.
     5
     6   Q.   You have seen that before.  Would you agree with me
     7        perhaps, and everybody else in court I am sure will agree,
     8        that looking at those two documents, whatever the date may
     9        be, that they are not similar to the up-to-date modern
    10        specifications?
    11        A.  Oh absolutely.
    12
    13   Q.   Thank you.  You still have pink IX there.  Will you turn
    14        backwards in the file, in other words towards the front,
    15        please, to tab 2 where you should find a lot of McDonald's
    16        food specifications?
    17        A.  Yes.
    18
    19   Q.   This time, please, turn to page 17 which is numbered with a
    20        stamp on the bottom.
    21        A.  Yes.
    22
    23   Q.   The first thing I would like to draw your attention to is
    24        this.  Under the 75 per cent 95 per cent lean boneless beef
    25        item No. 2 of the specification it says: "Must be
    26        slaughtered and processed under USDA inspection."   I think
    27        I asked you earlier whether the inspector has an animal
    28        welfare responsibility at the slaughterhouse?
    29        A.  That is correct.
    30
    31   Q.   Turning over the page, please, and we are now on page 18,
    32        notice that the original date of the specification was
    33        November 1973 and that this is a July 1986 update or
    34        revision.  We get the same provision in respect of two
    35        under "B" in respect of the minimum 50 per cent lean
    36        boneless beef and the necessity to slaughter and process
    37        under USDA inspection.  Then under 5 it says: "Ingredients
    38        absolutely not to be used, any foreign material" we do not
    39        mean French or German material by that, do we?  Then it
    40        says "Imported beef" do you see that?
    41        A.  Yes, I do.
    42
    43   Q.   Does that apply simply to the 50 per cent lean or does it
    44        apply also to the 75/95 per cent?
    45        A.  It applies to beef.  Beef is muscle meat that comes
    46        from beef cattle, so it applies to both, to any type of
    47        beef that we use.
    48
    49   Q.   Thank you.  Finally, Dr. Gomez Gonzalez, which means that
    50        you can go home tomorrow, yellow 12, please. 
    51        A.  Yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   Can you turn, please, to tab 16 in this file?  You will
    54        remember that these documents you told us represented the
    55        results of enquiries you had employed throughout the world
    56        about the different slaughtering practices or the
    57        slaughtering practices in different countries throughout
    58        the world?
    59        A.  That is correct.
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