Day 101 - 10 Mar 95 - Page 03

     
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     2   Q.   Was Jill Barnes involved?
     3        A.  I believe that Jill was involved as well, yes.
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     5   Q.   Have you seen the results of that investigation?
     6        A.  I do not think -- I was not party to the investigation.
     7          I have not read a sort of finished document from
     8        McDonald's saying:  "This is what the results of the
     9        investigation were."
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    11   Q.   Were there any finished results, do you know?
    12        A.  I was not really involved with it, I am sorry, it is
    13        difficult for me to comment.
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    15   Q.   Are you involved in other investigations into food
    16        poisoning incidents?
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    18   MR. RAMPTON:  "Incidents"?  Which incidents.  There is only one
    19        in this country that has been pleaded.
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    21   MS. STEEL:  Investigations.
    22        A.  Into allegations of food poisoning?
    23
    24   Q.   Yes.
    25        A.  I would be involved, yes.  It would be a multi-purpose
    26        team, really, that would be involved in the investigation,
    27        but certainly myself or somebody else from the Quality
    28        Assurance Department would be involved, yes.
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    30   Q.   Do you not need to know the findings of other
    31        investigations to help you with future investigation?
    32        A.  Sorry, I do not understand the question.
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    34   Q.   Would it not have been helpful for you to have found out a
    35        bit about the Preston incident before you started
    36        investigating another incident?
    37        A.  I have found out a bit about the Preston incident, but
    38        as I said, I was not involved in the investigation of it.
    39
    40   Q.   You have not read any report or conclusion by the company
         about -----
    42        A.  I have not read any report or conclusion, no.
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    44   Q.   You had not even heard of the Oregon one, the Oregon
    45        outbreak?
    46        A.  That is right.
    47
    48   Q.   So is there no kind of coherent strategy for looking at
    49        this problem area and seeing if there is a common thread or
    50        anything like that? 
    51        A.  Which area are you referring to, sorry? 
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    53   Q.   The area of complaints about food poisoning and the problem
    54        area of the risk of food poisoning?
    55        A.  Well, we obviously take the risk of food poisoning
    56        extremely seriously, and there is a coherent effort.  There
    57        is a distinct Quality Assurance programme throughout
    58        production and production of raw materials, distribution of
    59        finished products and further cooking, handling of those
    60        finished products.  Those are the controls that we have in