Day 081 - 31 Jan 95 - Page 27


     
     1        A.  Yes.
     2
     3   Q.   It would do?
     4        A.  It could do.
     5
     6   Q.   So that would not be good practice?
     7        A.  Well, you are presuming someone would know it was
     8        contaminated.  I do not suppose anyone would do it
     9        deliberately.
    10
    11   Q.   But that could be an example of how, although a place
    12        looked clean to the eye, the contamination had actually
    13        been spread wider than if it had not been wiped down?
    14        A.  Oh, certainly.
    15
    16   Q.   In the majority of food poisoning incidents where the
    17        vehicle is known, is the vehicle usually meat products?
    18        A.  It is often meat products.
    19
    20   Q.   It is often meat products?
    21        A.  Yes.
    22
    23   Q.   What percentage would you -----
    24        A.  I do not have the statistics.
    25
    26   Q.   You do not know?
    27        A.  No.
    28
    29   Q.   Do you know whether the Public Health Laboratory Service
    30        has said that more than 80 per cent of food poisoning cases
    31        were salmonella infections?
    32        A.  I do not know that they said that, no.
    33
    34   Q.   You are not aware of that?
    35        A.  No.
    36
    37   Q.   Do you know whether that is the case?
    38        A.  I would have thought that was probably not the case,
    39        but if they did say it, I would accept it but I do not
    40        know.  I would not have thought it.
    41
    42   Q.   In terms of, say, about six, seven years ago, do you know
    43        whether that would have been likely to have been the case?
    44        A.  No, I am afraid my memory -- I did used to know these
    45        but my memory is not what it was.
    46
    47   Q.   Do you know whether salmonella is responsible for the
    48        majority of cases of food poisoning?
    49        A.  No, I think it is not.
    50 
    51   Q.   You think it is not? 
    52        A.  Yes. 
    53
    54   Q.   Do you know whether it used to be?
    55        A.  I think it did used to be.
    56
    57   Q.   When was that -- at the end of the 80s?
    58        A.  Yes, perhaps.
    59
    60   Q.   Around that time?

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