Day 101 - 10 Mar 95 - Page 14

     
     1        Valley processing plant in Orleon which comes from chickens
     2        which have not been grown within the Sun Valley system, but
     3        comes from other suppliers altogether who do not operate
     4        the Sun Valley system or are not part of the Sun Valley
     5        system, but provide raw meat to Orleon which Sun Valley
     6        then process.  It does not come into this country, but it
     7        goes to McDonald's in other countries?
     8        A.  Yes, that is correct.
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    10   MS. STEEL:  What do you know about those other chicken
    11        suppliers?
    12        A.  I personally have never visited any of them.  I do not
    13        know a great deal about them, obviously.
    14
    15   Q.   You do not know the names of them or anything like that?
    16        A.  Only from what I have seen on the sheets here.
    17        Obviously, Sun Valley visit these suppliers in the same way
    18        that they would and impose the same restrictions and
    19        controls that they would on their own farms -- sorry, they
    20        are not farms, they are boning rooms or slaughter house.
    21
    22   Q.   They buy from the slaughterhouses, from other
    23        slaughterhouses?
    24        A.  They buy -- you would have to ask someone from Sun
    25        Valley that information.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  This may be a topic you would like to
    28        raise with Dr. Pattison on Monday.
    29
    30   MS. STEEL:  I will do, yes.  (To the witness):  But you have not
    31        made any enquiries about that, about where they are getting
    32        them from, what kind of conditions they are kept in, all
    33        that kind of thing?
    34        A.  Personally, I have not been to see any of them, no.
    35
    36   Q.   Do you know whether anyone in your department has?
    37        A.  I would think if nobody from my department has, then
    38        certainly my opposite numbers in those respective countries
    39        would have visited those facilities.
    40
    Q.   You would think that but you do not actually know that?
    42        A.  I cannot say that, as a matter of fact.
    43
    44   Q.   You mentioned about a bone or a foreign object detector
    45        that was similar to the X-ray machine at the entrance of
    46        the court?
    47        A.  Yes.
    48
    49   Q.   Do all the products go through that, or is that a sample
    50        test? 
    51        A.  All the finished products go through that, yes. 
    52 
    53   Q.   All of them would?
    54        A.  Yes.
    55
    56   MR. MORRIS:  You said that you do a once a month check on local
    57        stores -- well, on a local store?
    58        A.  On?
    59
    60   Q.   To check products?