Day 105 - 16 Mar 95 - Page 13
1 MR. RAMPTON: "If they found it" is what he should say.
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3 MS. STEEL: Which is what he did say.
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5 MR. JUSTICE BELL: He said "if they find it" which means the
6 same thing, does it not? (To the witness) So, it tells
7 them they must warn the customer immediately and
8 investigate how it came to be?
9 A. Yes, indeed.
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11 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Do you have a problem this morning? You are
12 going very slowly. We do have good mornings and bad
13 mornings and good afternoons and bad afternoons.
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15 MR. MORRIS: Yes. I do not have a problem, but it is one of
16 those issues that it is not -- it did not help that I did
17 not get the material that I was hoping to get, but I am
18 thinking at the same time. I do not know if that is usual
19 in court cases.
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21 (To the witness): What I am trying to get to is that the
22 speed of the line and the volume of throughput in any
23 abattoir is bound to be of educational significance, is it
24 not?
25 A. Forgive me for not understanding exactly what you are
26 asking me?
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28 Q. If a company was concerned about the quality of their
29 procedures and their products, and it has been accepted
30 that the faster (above a certain point) the throughput in
31 the line, the more pressure that might put on particular
32 tasks or procedures, then -----
33 A. I must say, I would not accept -- whatever conclusion
34 you would draw from the increased pressure, clearly, a busy
35 fast moving line requires a degree of skill and attention
36 to detail which a slower moving line might not in order to
37 achieve the same results, but there is nothing wrong with a
38 fast moving line as such.
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40 Q. So, if Jarretts have something like 400 to 600 carcasses a
41 day going through, is that the figure?
42 A. 400 to 600?
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44 Q. Yes?
45 A. That would be very high. I think 800 a week, if my
46 memory serves me correctly, is about the number of units
47 which would go through Jarretts.
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49 Q. A week?
50 A. Yes.
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52 Q. So an operation like Jarretts, the line goes five days a
53 week, does it?
54 A. Yes. If the business is there, it does. It is
55 normally a five day working week.
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57 Q. So 800 a week would be something like 150, 200 a day
58 carcasses going through, yes?
59 A. In fact, it would be more because one sheep carcass
60 equals five cattle carcasses (sic). When I say "800 units
