Day 100 - 09 Mar 95 - Page 39
1 products look and taste the same, do you not?
2 A. Yes, for most products.
3
4 Q. So that is something that the company feels is significant
5 or important?
6 A. It is, yes, part and parcel of the way that McDonald's
7 operates, yes.
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9 MR. MORRIS: You have specifications for what McKey's should be
10 doing to satisfy you that it is a responsible supplier,
11 yes?
12 A. No, that is not quite right. We have specifications
13 for what the finished product that a supplier supplies to
14 us should be. My department, as a Quality Assurance
15 Department, then works with those suppliers to ensure that
16 they have adequate Quality Assurance programmes in place so
17 that they meet -- so that they will meet the specifications
18 that we ask of them.
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20 Q. Let us go to another document, if I can find it. I have a
21 spare copy. It is the McDonald's Fact Card, MacFact Card
22 No. 3. I will give this to the witness. We will try to
23 find the reference.
24
25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Is it in the nutrition information file -- is
26 it pink VI or something like that?
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28 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, I do not think it is in the nutrition
29 bundles, as far as I can recall.
30
31 MS. STEEL: It is in the Defendants' document No. 197 which is
32 bundle VI. (To the witness): It is 197 but the tab has
33 only got "97" on it. It is the fifth page.
34 A. Yes.
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36 MR. MORRIS: One is dated May 1989 and one is dated January
37 1990, yes?
38 A. Yes.
39
40 Q. There are two in a row, in fact?
41 A. Yes, I have them both now.
42
43 Q. I cannot see any difference, but certainly they are both
44 the same in the bit that is relevant. It says in the
45 middle: "All McDonald's beef comes from EEC approved
46 European suppliers. Every consumption of beef arriving at
47 the meat plant", that would be in this country McKey's or
48 Scunthorpe, yes, for beef ------
49 A. McKey's Milton Keynes or McKey's Scunthorpe, yes.
50
51 Q. Yes -- "... is subject to a total of 36 separate quality
52 control checks carried by a team of qualified
53 technologists". Those are the ones which you have appended
54 to your statement?
55 A. I think they are appended to my statement.
56
57 Q. It is now more checks, is it not, it has gone up ---
58 A. That is right.
59
60 Q. -- since 1989. "If a consignment should fail on any one
