Day 101 - 10 Mar 95 - Page 21

     
     1   MR. MORRIS:  Sorry, I did not understand.
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     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  If you do not understand, you must sit down
     4        now and do a bit of transcript reading because I have ruled
     5        on this on several occasions in the past, certainly more
     6        than once.  You must move on with the remainder of your
     7        cross-examination on the food poisoning.  If you want to
     8        have a five-minute break, do so, and we will then, if there
     9        are any relics on food poisoning, deal with them after the
    10        break and then we will go straight on to animal welfare
    11        from there.
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    13   MR. MORRIS:  We are going to move on, but I would just point out
    14        that the pleadings, although they may strictly be under
    15        nutrition on this particular matter, do relate to obviously
    16        cross-fertilization with the food poisoning issue because
    17        the lettuce matters are pleaded; what we make of it is
    18        another question.
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    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Hold on, you cannot say "lettuce matters" are
         pleaded as if the appearance of the word "lettuce" enables
    22        you to ask any question about lettuce.  If you can point me
    23        somewhere where pesticide residues in lettuce is pleaded,
    24        fair enough.  If you cannot point to that, if you can point
    25        to something which on a statement raises pesticide residues
    26        in lettuce, point me to that.
    27
    28        What you cannot do is say:  "A lettuce has floated over the
    29        horizon so I can blast away at it as often as I like and as
    30        much as I like".
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  I know, with respect, we have only brought it up
    33        for about 20 minutes in 100 days.
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    35   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Please leave it now.  Do you want the
    36        five-minute break there just in case there is anything on
    37        food poisoning you want to raise?  I will come back at 5 to
    38        12 which is eight minutes, certainly more than five, but
    39        then, when you have finished your food poisoning, I would
    40        like to go straight on to animal welfare.
    41
    42                       (Short Adjournment)
    43
    44   MS. STEEL:  In the mornings when staff go into McDonald's,
    45        maggots are sometimes found in shake machines, are they
    46        not?
    47        A.  Not that I am aware of.
    48
    49   Q.   You have not heard of that?
    50        A.  I have nothing to do with the in-store operations. 
    51        I told you this yesterday.  The shake machine and the 
    52        cleaning of the shake machine is something that is done 
    53        last thing at night and first thing in the morning, and is
    54        the remit of the Operations Department.
    55
    56   Q.   So your department has never investigated anything to do
    57        with that?
    58        A.  No.
    59
    60   Q.   Not at all?