Day 077 - 25 Jan 95 - Page 61
1 travel without the risk of getting too warm?
2 A. No distance at all. I have got to explain to you the
3 change for you to understand that.
4
5 Q. The answer to my question may mean that there are means of
6 preventing it from getting a rise of temperature?
7 A. It is under chilled conditions all the time.
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9 Q. Does it come in a chilled transporter?
10 A. It comes in a child lorry. It comes out of a chiller
11 from an EC boning room which is chilled, into a container
12 in a chiller. It is transported on an articulated which is
13 chilled. It is unloaded on a loading dock which is
14 chilled. It goes straight into a chiller. It comes out of
15 the chiller into a child atmosphere, a production room, and
16 within 12 and a half -- within 14 minutes it is minus 20.
17
18 Q. So you could take fresh meat from France or Spain, even if
19 you wanted to, is that right?
20 A. Absolutely right, sir.
21
22 Q. What about other unwelcome presences within the meat other
23 than bacteria? What about foreign objects what, can you do
24 about that?
25 A. Well, all the actual burger when it is formed -- the
26 only other thing we worry about is contamination from a
27 foreign body; a butcher's steel, a glove from a boning
28 room, that sort of thing, or very, very rarely a screw or a
29 bolt from a machine. As the burger comes out of the
30 freezing tunnel each individual burger goes through a metal
31 dectector. As the burger is boxed and the box goes through
32 the wall, the packing area where it is palletised and
33 overwrapped before it goes into the freezer, it goes
34 through another metal dectector. At the end of the grind
35 of the meat before it is even frozen, there is a
36 centrifugal bone eliminator in case a piece of bone, and if
37 a piece of plastic, for example, had got in there that is
38 where that is taken out.
39
40 Q. By centrifugal force it forces the bone or a piece of
41 plastic if it were there out towards the edge?
42 A. Yes.
43
44 Q. Does it stick to the side?
45 A. No, it travels down a pipe and it is taken out of the
46 blend.
47
48 Q. What size of object will the individual patty metal
49 dectector detect?
50 A. A pin head.
51
52 Q. What about the one that does the boxes?
53 A. A piece of metal the size of a rubber at the end of a
54 pencil, a normal eraser.
55
56 Q. Why do you run a double check like that?
57 A. Because the more checks you have the more safe you are.
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59 Q. Is there a risk that something that clears the metal
60 dectector on the individual burger line and then,
