Day 079 - 27 Jan 95 - Page 62
1 A. What, quarters or tens?
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: We are on finished products now.
4 A. 303 ten to the pound burgers in a box; 106 quarter
5 pounders in a box.
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7 MS. STEEL: So you take one out of each box?
8 A. Each box on the top layer. It is statistical
9 sampling. You cannot take everything you have made and
10 take everything back through the laboratory. It is all
11 worked out on statistics.
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13 Q. So all the boxes, they have extra burgers in them to take
14 account of that, do they?
15 A. Extra burgers? You mean on the box count?
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17 Q. After they have been packed -- I mean presumably when
18 McDonald's buy them they buy a set number per box?
19 A. They buy a weight. In actual fact they buy a weight.
20 They buy a 30 pound box. We try very hard to give
21 McDonald's a range of 303 to 106 and 104 -- I beg your
22 pardon, 303 to 306 and 104 to 106 and the scales work that
23 way.
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25 Q. So the burgers are taken out before or after they have been
26 weighed?
27 A. They are taken out after they have been weighed on
28 dispatch, on the dispatch dock.
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30 Q. You said they are emulsified to get a maximum distribution
31 and then you wait to see what grows from it. How long does
32 that take?
33 A. 24 hours.
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35 Q. 24 hours. Is that how you test for E.coli?
36 A. Yes, it is basically.
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38 Q. It is?
39 A. Yes.
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41 MR. MORRIS: So you test one burger sample completed patty, yes,
42 you say, out of a batch?
43 A. No.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Out of a box?
46 A. Out of each box on the top layer of a pallet.
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48 MR. MORRIS: Four boxes on a pallet, six boxes?
49 A. Six.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You can work that out later.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Yes, I understand that. So how many samples ----
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you just tell me, because I cannot
56 remember everything, I have got Preston in mind, what other
57 outbreaks or incidents of E.coli might possibly be
58 connected with McKey Foods?
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60 MS. STEEL: Can I just say that in actual fact the fact sheet on
