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                                                                  DAY 217
 
                                                     MRS. HOVI, Examined:
 
 
 
     1        A.  I would be very happy if -- from a professional point
     2        of view, I would be very happy if this map was accurate,
     3        because there are considerable improvements to what the
     4        situation was when I was working at Jarrets.
     5
     6        The first improvement, as I said earlier, is the fact that
     7        there is a sterilizer for pithing rod.
     8
     9   MR. MORRIS:  Marked on the map?
    10        A.  Marked on the map now.  It was not marked on the
    11        previous map, and it was not there when I worked at
    12        Jarrets.
    13
    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just let me make a note.
    15        A.  And another thing is the hide chains.
    16
    17   Q.    I am sorry.  When I ask you to give me time to make a
    18        note, you must stop talking.  Do you understand?
    19        A.  I am sorry.  (Pause)
    20
    21   Q.   There was no pithing rod sterilizer when you were there;
    22        and then you were going to tell me something else.
    23        A.  There were no hide chain sterilizer, either.
    24
    25   MR. MORRIS:  Can you just point out where the hide puller chains
    26        sterilizer on the map is?
    27        A.  You see the -- on the top of the map, you see "hide
    28        skin room".
    29
    30   Q.   Yes.
    31        A.  There is an opening from the beef line on to that side,
    32        and they have marked down hide chain sterilizer inside the
    33        hides and skins room -- where it should not be, anyway; it
    34        should be inside the abattoir.  When the chains come back
    35        to the clean side of the abattoir, they should be
    36        sterilized after that, not in the dirty side.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  So the sterilizer should be on the line side
    39        of the wall?
    40        A.  Yes.
    41
    42   MR. MORRIS:  You are saying, in any case, it was not there when
    43        you worked there?
    44        A.  The chains were not sterilized when I was working at
    45        Jarrets.  As I said earlier, the Ministry of Agriculture
    46        inspectors have on two occasions in their reports, that
    47        I had access to at the time, pointed out that this was a
    48        major shortcoming in the hygiene procedures.
    49
    50        Another change, as far as this map and the previous one is 
    51        concerned, is the entrance to the abattoir where you see 
    52        "mess changing, toilet, tray wash, small rooms" on the 
    53        bottom of the -- on the other side of the beef line.
    54
    55   Q.   Under the disused beef line?
    56        A.  Yes.  With green pen, now you can see booth wash and
    57        three person wash trough.  Those did not exist when
    58        I worked at Jarrets.  Mr. Booth has pointed out in his
    59        statement that they did not -- Mr. Bone, I am sorry,
    60        pointed out in his statement that these were installed in
 
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