Day 111 - 30 Mar 95 - Page 03
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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.
