Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 56
1 A. Carrageenan, I think that is used as thickener.
I cannot be categoric on that one.
2
Q. Monosodium glutamate does what for us in our food?
3 A. It is usually described as a flavour enhancer. It
enhances the various flavours that are present in the
4 food.
5 Q. It is, of course, a source of sodium?
A. It is, yes.
6
Q. Just as sodium chloride is that we call -----
7 A. Yes, that is right.
8 Q. Do you remember what it was about potassium bromate that
had condemned it to exile from the permitted lists?
9 A. No. I cannot remember the exact -- I have dealt with
it in my evidence; I have made reference to the
10 appropriate documents.
11 Q. I do not expect you to remember it off the top of your
head. Because we can all read, I will not ask you to look
12 at it now. My Lord, there is a good deal of detail from
Professor Wheelock on this topic and on others which, as
13 I suggested yesterday, I might invite your Lordship simply
to take as read to save time. Much of the ground
14 covered ----
15 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes. I am content with that. I think in
the light of the question which I think Ms. Steel asked a
16 few days ago, as to what was in and what was not, if there
was a statement which I had or what I would or might take
17 into account in due course, it would be helpful to
identify which parts of Professor Wheelock's statement you
18 want me to take as read into his evidence, as it were.
19 MR. RAMPTON: In so far as I have not already dealt with it,
the whole of his first report -- that includes a good of
20 detail about food additives -- that is ground I shall
cover to a large extent with Professor Walker next week.
21 Also a good deal of material about the crudity of
epidemiological studies, that is something I shall cover
22 with Dr. Arnott next week. The importance of balance in a
diet and the relationship between food and diet which
23 I shall come back to in Professor Wheelock's oral evidence
a little later and then in his second report.
24
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Am I to take the whole of tab 5 as read
25 then?
26 MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, it would help. There is nothing in
there, so far as I know -- the defendants may show
27 different in cross-examination -- that is inconsistent
with what the Professor has told us in his evidence.
28
MS. STEEL: When you say tab 5, I have actually mine in the old
29 format; is this the first?
30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is 8th June 1993 report.
