Day 097 - 06 Mar 95 - Page 40

     
     1   Q.   Are you the Quality Assurance Manager in that company?
     2        A.  I am.
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     4   Q.   What does that company do?
     5        A.  We are slaughterers and processors of beef.
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     7   Q.   Beef only?
     8        A.  And a small amount of sheep but a very small amount.
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    10   Q.   We can forget about sheep because they are nothing to do
    11        with McDonald's.  Is McKey Foods of Milton Keynes one of
    12        your customers?
    13        A.  It is.
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    15   Q.   What sort of volume, not in money terms but in percentage
    16        terms, of your business is devoted to McKey's?
    17        A.  That varies seasonally and, presumably, with price as
    18        well.  I honestly could not tell you the tonnage per year.
    19        They are certainly not one of our largest customers.
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    Q.   It is not one of your largest customers.  Who else besides
    22        McKey's do you supply that we have heard of?
    23        A.  Well, two of the major supermarkets, various processors
    24        around the country too numerous to mention, really.
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    26   Q.   What cuts of beef do you or, sorry, perhaps I will ask it
    27        differently, from what parts of the cattle, whether it be a
    28        heifer, a steer or a cow, does the meat for McKeys come
    29        from?
    30        A.  Mainly the forequarter but hindquarter flank as well.
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    32   Q.   Does the forequarter and the flank have the same or
    33        different amounts of fat in it?
    34        A.  Varying usually, usually the flank is fatter.
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    36   Q.   Do McKeys specify the amount of fat that you are allowed to
    37        have in the meat which you send them?
    38        A.  Yes, they do.
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    40   Q.   Can you tell us, how long have you worked for Midland Meat
         Packers?
    42        A.  12 years.
    43
    44   Q.   Is that since you left school?
    45        A.  After finishing A levels, yes, and then I went to
    46        college.
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    48   Q.   You did A levels in what subjects?
    49        A.  Chemistry, Physics and Biology.
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    51   Q.   Then you went to college to do what? 
    52        A.  Did Technology of Food. 
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    54   Q.   Do you get some kind of a degree or diploma at the end of
    55        that course?
    56        A.  A certificate, yes.
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    58   Q.   What is it scald?
    59        A.  BTEC certificate.
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