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     1        lot more evidence of the contamination at the abattoirs has
     2        come into light.  I am sure you are all aware of the
     3        Government Advisory Committee on Microbiological Food
     4        safety on E.Coli 157, and I am sure that the findings that
     5        were made there further, or I -- in the light of those
     6        findings I find that it is worrying that Mr. Bone still
     7        claims that, for example, when it comes to this hygiene
     8        swabs and the readings that were prevalent at Jarrets in
     9        paragraph 4 of his statement, that he puts so little stress
    10        on them.  That particular report puts much bigger emphasis
    11        on those.
    12
    13   MR. RAMPTON:  Can I ask you when this was published?
    14        A.  October.  I have it with me, if you -- I can check it.
    15        I think it was in October or November last year.  I think
    16        I laid my hands on it in October in a professional
    17        capacity, just having to comment on it.
    18
    19   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just in case it crops up again, what was it
    20        called?
    21        A.  It is Advisory -----
    22
    23   Q.   You have it there?
    24        A.  Yes.
    25
    26   MR. RAMPTON:  You have got it?
    27
    28   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I do not want to go into it now because that
    29        will be another two days' evidence, but so that it has been
    30        identified can you say what its title is?
    31        A.  It is a Report on Verocytotoxin-Producing E.Coli, which
    32        is E.Coli 157 as you have learned to know it here, as
    33        I understand.
    34
    35   MR. RAMPTON:  Yes.  Can you please look in it and say what the
    36        date of its publication is?
    37        A.  First published 1995, I am afraid.
    38
    39   Q.   That is all it says?
    40        A.  Yes.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Does it have a number?
    43        A.  The H.M.S.O. number is -- I.S.B.N. number -----
    44
    45   Q.   What I suggest you do, when you have finished your evidence
    46        this afternoon, if you kindly just lend it to
    47        Mrs. Brinley-Codd for ---
    48        A.  Yes, sure.
    49
    50   Q.   -- a couple of minutes so she can take down whatever she 
    51        needs to identify. 
    52 
    53   MR. RAMPTON:  Thank you very much.  You think it was, at any
    54        rate when you first saw it, in October/November last year?
    55        A.  That is right, yes.
    56
    57   Q.   You would not criticise Mr. Bone for not paying attention
    58        to it if his statement was made in April last year?
    59        A.  All right, I did not know; I did not get Mr. Bone's
    60        statement until -----
 
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