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     2   MR. MORRIS:  You were employed by Jarretts slaughterhouse --
     3        I cannot remember the exact dates now -- it was April, was
     4        it, last year, 1994?
     5        A.  Well, I was not employed by Jarretts slaughter.  I was
     6        employed by the veterinary practice, Eville and Jones, and
     7        they had a contract with the local authority to provide
     8        official veterinary surgeon services for that particular
     9        abattoir.
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    11   Q.   Can we just go a little bit into your qualifications and
    12        general experience?  Could you outline your qualifications?
    13        A.  I qualified as a veterinary surgeon in Finland in
    14        1985.  Before that, previously I had already done extensive
    15        public health work.  My dissitation was concerned to
    16        trichinella epidemic in Finland which related to meat
    17        hygiene and -----
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    19   Q.   Trichinella?
    20        A.  It is a parasite in pig meat, mainly.
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    22   Q.   We do not need to dwell on that.
    23        A.  I also worked at the Public Health Food Laboratory in
    24        Finland during that period of time, before my graduation,
    25        and produced a general guideline for trichinella inspection
    26        for the Finnish abattoirs under the Ministry of
    27        Agriculture.  After that, I went on to work as a Municipal
    28        Veterinary Officer in charge of the Public Health
    29        Laboratory in Environmental Health Office, Environmental
    30        Health office in a medium-sized small town in Finland.
    31        After that I  ------
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    33   Q.   That was in 1986, was it?
    34        A.  That was 1986, yes.  After that I obtained further
    35        qualifications in red meat hygiene which in Finland means
    36        fairly substantial studies and three-month practice working
    37        at an abattoir as a meat inspector.  Basically the OVS
    38        training in Finland is much more hands-on than in this
    39        country where it is very theoretical.
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    41        After that I worked for seven months as an Official
    42        Veterinary Surgeon at a large EC licensed export abattoir
    43        in Finland.  I further went on to study veterinary tropical
    44        veterinary medicine and did a Masters Degree in Edinburgh
    45        University in 1988.  After that I worked in Botswana.
    46        I worked for 8 months as a teacher and after that, for two
    47        years, as an Official Veterinary Surgeon at a large export
    48        abattoir, EC licensed export abattoir, in Botswana.
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    50   Q.   Is there only one EC approved abattoir in Botswana? 
    51        A.  No, there are two.  There are export abattoirs and two 
    52        of them are licensed for EC. 
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    54   Q.   There has been some mention about that in this case before.
    55          Thus, you were the OVS?
    56        A.  I was the OVS for one of the two EC licensed export
    57        abattoirs.
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    59   Q.   When was this?
    60        A.  This was in 1991/1992.

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