Day 099 - 08 Mar 95 - Page 36


     
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     2   Q.   Do you have any kind of what one might emergency system in
     3        place in case something like that should happen and you
     4        needed to trace other batches as a matter of urgency?
     5        A.  Yes, we do.
     6
     7   Q.   How does that work?
     8        A.  At two levels.  Obviously, there is the initial stage
     9        which is the contacting of the supplier with the
    10        information to retrieve -- to enable us to retrieve the
    11        correct cases.  So, there is a system that operates both
    12        during office hours and out of office hours, whereby we
    13        have a series of contact names so that we can relay the
    14        necessary information to the manufacturer who can then take
    15        his code and come back to us within a set time period with
    16         -- for instance, in beef it would be what codes would have
    17        been affected, any other codes apart from obviously the
    18        code that was reported, how many cases were made, where
    19        they were sent, what distribution centres, when they were
    20        sent.  So, armed with that information we then have the
    21        ability to stop the product at the distribution centre.
    22
    23   Q.   So you identify the suspect batch or batches?
    24        A.  Yes.
    25
    26   Q.   That can be picked up at Golden West, can it, in this
    27        country, for example?
    28        A.  If there is a problem a lot of -- some of the stock may
    29        still be at the distribution centre.
    30
    31   Q.   But, I mean, Golden West will know where it has gone, it
    32        will be able to identify through the code number
    33        where  -----
    34        A.  The supplier can identify which distribution centre it
    35        has gone to.  We can then limit the number of restaurants
    36        or have a good indication of what restaurants it has gone
    37        to.  We do not know individual restaurants.
    38
    39   Q.   Then would you check the individual restaurants on that
    40        list of possibles?
    41        A.  They would all be contacted, yes.
    42
    43   Q.   They would.  I would like to look, or I would like you to
    44        look, please, going back to the pink file at 1B again, but
    45        this time the first page of 1B.
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Is that page 16?
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    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, it is the Chicken McNuggets food product
    50        specification again, the one we were looking at earlier. 
    51 
    52   MR. RAMPTON (To the witness):  This is a slightly later 
    53        document, Mr. Kenny.  Again it appears to originate in the
    54        United States; is that right?
    55        A.  That is correct yes.
    56
    57   Q.   Here we see that they use "n", "c" "m" and "M" in the
    58        middle of the page, do you see that?
    59        A.  Yes.
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