Day 295 - 06 Nov 96 - Page 30
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2 MS. STEEL: It is day 100, page 21.
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4 MR. MORRIS: Customer vomited after biting into the burger.
5 But they won on appeal, which makes no difference, because
6 the point is they were selling undercooked food likely to
7 lead to food poisoning.
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9 MS. STEEL: They won on due diligence.
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11 MR. MORRIS: Yes, due diligence-negligence kind of line.
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13 MR. RAMPTON: Not negligence.
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15 MR. MORRIS: Due diligence, which has no relevance, we think,
16 in this issue here. But it is relevant, of course, that
17 they were selling such a product.
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19 He talked about increasing their burger cooking times twice
20 in the last five years. Day 100, page 29. That memo --
21 that was the John Atherton memo which I read out earlier --
22 was brought up on day 100, page 34. Mr. Kenny said that
23 the old system had been a particular worry with the Quarter
24 Pounder. He said that antibiotics and growth hormones,
25 McDonald's would not use beef in the UK subjected to
26 antibiotics or growth hormones because they were "not
27 desirable" in the food chain. Day 100, pages 49 and 50.
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29 He also said McDonald's would not want them, pesticide
30 residues, in the food chain because of health risks. That
31 was day 100, pages 50, 53 and 54. 53 and 54, I think, and
32 then 50 was where we brought up the National Research
33 Council. Page 50 on day 100 is where we brought up the
34 National Research Council report on pesticide residues and
35 their carcinogenic risk. Mr. Kenny admitted that the
36 lettuce used by McDonald's contained pesticide residues,
37 day 101, page 19. Right, that is that. (Pause)
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39 Actually, I have found another interesting bit of
40 Mr. Kenny. He was the one who said that twenty seven and a
41 half million birds were reared by Sun Valley for McDonald's
42 use each year. You remember, we were trying to work out
43 where we had heard that. Day 101, page 31, line 58.
44 I think that deals with that.
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46 Actually, there is something that did not come up under
47 animals specifically, when Helen gave her submissions, but
48 another reference to Mr. Kenny is that he was questioned
49 about the matter of chickens being killed without being
50 properly stunned before slaughter, and dying of ill health
51 in the broiler sheds, and he recognised that 275,000
52 chickens per year destined for McDonald's were not properly
53 stunned before slaughter. Day 101, page 34 and page 32 is
54 the dying of ill health questioning.
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56 I think the reference to Mr. Beavers and the milkshake mix
57 came up on day 125, page 15. The references about how many
58 customer complaints McDonald's get, and Mr. Walker, that
59 McKey gets, were on days 80, page 29, and day 86, page 59.
60 Of course, we have not got accurate figures on complaints,
