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DAY 217
MRS. HOVI, Examined:
1 A. Yes.
2
3 Q. Yes.
4 A. Paragraph 26 on page 13, we are talking about the words
5 at the bottom of the page, Mr. Bone talks about the hose
6 pipes and the washing points. As I said in my statement
7 before, the carcasses were washed before the inspection.
8 Between the ------
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I make sure I understand you there? Are
11 you saying that all carcasses were washed before the
12 inspection or just that some were sometimes?
13 A. Well, virtually all carcasses, as far as I could see,
14 all carcasses were washed. It was a routine. There was a
15 man there whose job it was to wash the carcasses -----
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17 Q. Before inspections?
18 A. Before inspection. Only the -- basically, what they
19 did wash was the forequarter. It was after the splitting
20 saw. There was another hose pipe between the gut removal
21 and the splitting saw, and then there was a hose pipe
22 between splitting saw and inspection point, and these --
23 both hose pipes were used on a very regular basis.
24
25 There was a man who operated them and he washed the
26 forequarter, basically, and the neck area. When
27 I discussed this with Mr. Bob Jarret, he said that it was a
28 customary requirement, that otherwise there would be too
29 much blood in the neck meat.
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31 Q. In the neck?
32 A. In the neck meat, yes. The neck meat.
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34 MR. MORRIS: Just one point here where Mr. Bone says: "I am not
35 an expert in matters of science. Therefore, I am not
36 qualified to speak about the scientific validity or
37 otherwise of this practice". I had not actually noticed
38 that before. Your understanding of Mr. Bone is he is not
39 trained in veterinary matters?
40 A. No, as far as I know.
41
42 Q. Right.
43 A. So this ------
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45 Q. In the first page of his statement he says: "My
46 responsibilities included maintenance and dealing with the
47 hygiene matters". Was that in terms of -- what was his
48 position related to you? For example, when he was there
49 what was your relationship about him?
50 A. Well, I found Mr. Bone very helpful. I had been
51 working at Jarrets already for three weeks and a lot of the
52 problems that had arisen had already been taken up with the
53 Jarrets, and the response on that side was not extremely
54 helpful. But Mr. Bone was very -- turned out to be very
55 considerate of the requirements I had presented. He
56 considered them of importance as well, and the first thing
57 he implemented during his -- the only week that I worked
58 together with him was fixing all the doors leading to the
59 front of the hide skin rooms, gut room, fat room and
60 detained (indecipherable), the lairage rooms to the dirty
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