Less than fondly, he recalls a late-1980s visit to a French pigment factory where the air was thick with powder laced (he suspects) with toxic heavy metals.
Poujol supplied the meat to a Luxembourg factory owned by French group Comigel.
Nissan has said that it is considering building the new Micra at its Barcelona factory or a plant of its French partner Renault because of the UK Government's failure to set out a timetable for joining the euro.
The horsemeat discovered on British dinner tables last week was (1) supplied by a Swedish frozen foods marketer that had (2) outsourced meal preparation to a French company that (3) operates a factory in Luxembourg that (4) uses meat imported, (5) via a Dutch agent, (6) from Romania.
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At the Google Factory Tour media event last week, French journalists brought up the issue repeatedly.
The French health ministry has said that, when the Coudray factory is re-opened, it will be under "reinforced controls".
In 1997, Renault, in which the French government held shares, announced that it was closing a factory at Vilvoorde, on the outskirts of Brussels.
Mr Paterson told the BBC a factory in Luxembourg, which has been linked to the French cases, had to issue warnings to 16 different countries.
In the French village of Flins, north west of Paris, lies the Renault factory where Nissan is thinking of building the new Micra.
But given the backlash that closures cause there, their first factory-sharing may come elsewhere: just before the Paris show a French union official let slip that the two firms were looking at building cars together in Brazil.
But in Toulouse last week Tom Williams, Airbus's head of manufacturing, dropped a hint that the firm's other factory in Britain (at Filton, near Bristol) could lose to French or German plants when Airbus starts making wing panels from composite materials rather than aluminium.
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That is not because British workers are any less productive: at its peak, Ryton produced 63 vehicles per employee a year, just three fewer than Peugeot's factory in Mulhouse and more than the 56 notched up by Poissy, another French plant, according to Global Insight.
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French-owned Michelin is Dundee's biggest industrial employer, with 750 people working at the factory.
Taylor, who is nicknamed "The Grizz", wrote the no-holds-barred letter to French Industrial Renewal Minister Arnaud Montebourg to explain why his company wouldn't buy part of an ailing Goodyear factory in Amiens.
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