Day 104 - 15 Mar 95 - Page 06

     
     1   Q.   Did you become their company Services Manager after being
     2        Group Safety and Hygiene Adviser?
     3        A.  Yes, that was much later on.
     4
     5   Q.   How long did you work for them?
     6        A.  23 years.
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     8   Q.   In the course of that occupation, that appointment,
     9        23 years, did you have contact with, for example, the
    10        Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries?
    11        A.  I did, more or less constant contacts with the
    12        Ministry.
    13
    14   Q.   And with Local Authorities?
    15        A.  Local authorities also, yes.
    16
    17   Q.   Have you had a knowledge of the regulations which govern
    18        the food safety of food products?
    19        A.  I have.
    20
    Q.   Have you spent time in abattoirs?
    22        A.  Yes, a considerable amount of time, I might say.
    23
    24   Q.   In all your 40 years?
    25        A.  Yes.
    26
    27   Q.   And in different parts of the country?
    28        A.  Yes, indeed.
    29
    30   Q.   Have you served on any examining bodies?
    31        A.  Yes, I was an examiner for the Royal Society of Health
    32        Meat and Food Inspectors Certificate and also for the Royal
    33        Society of Health Catering Food Hygiene Certificate.
    34
    35   Q.   Have you been a member of committees?
    36        A.  Yes.  Mainly the technical committee of a major trade
    37        association in the meat industry.  That is the Association
    38        of British Abattoir Owners, but also a joint working party
    39        consisting of trade associations and the Health & Safety
    40        Executive.
    41
    42   Q.   Have you written papers and articles concerned with your
    43        particular field of expertise?
    44        A.  I have.
    45
    46   Q.   In 1990, I think, you finally moved out of industry, out of
    47        employment, and formed your own consultancy?
    48        A.  I did.
    49
    50   Q.   Is the time coming when maybe you will give that up and 
    51        attend to your roses? 
    52        A.  Inevitably, as the years roll by, that is true as well. 
    53
    54   Q.   Roughly speaking -- I am not going to ask about the status
    55        of your business at all -- how many clients do you have
    56        concerned with the food industry?
    57        A.  It changes as time goes on, but if I was to say 12 at
    58        any given moment, and those would include two very large
    59        organisations which themselves have, perhaps, 30 locations
    60        scattered throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland.