Day 039 - 20 Oct 94 - Page 28


     
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     2   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, please.
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     4   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In case again I have missed some reference to
     5        human reaction.  With regard to BHA on page 21, the first
     6        paragraph there.
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     8   MR. MORRIS:  Is that the first complete paragraph?
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    10   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
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    12   THE WITNESS:  And the first sentence of the next paragraph.
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    14   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  The reference is 53 and, in fact, in my
    15        bundle, 53, there is a 53 (a) which concerns rats and
    16        53 (b) is the children between the age of six and 15 weeks
    17        in a, I think, neonatal or paediatric ward.  Then the first
    18        sentence in the next paragraph:  "There is evidence that
    19        BHA and BHT can trigger hyperactivity and other symptoms of
    20        intolerance, but not all studies have yielded positive
    21        results".
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    23        Reference 54 is a number of papers.  When we come to BHT on
    24        page 27, there is that same comment repeated.  The footnote
    25        is 85, which I think has the same documents as footnote 54.
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    27   MR. MORRIS:  I think before you referred to 53.
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    29   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  53 is the infants.  That comment does not
    30        appear, I do not think, in Dr. Millstone's comments on
    31        BHT.  But the comment, "There is evidence that BHA and BHT
    32        can trigger hyperactivity and other symptoms of
    33        intolerance, but not all studies have yielded positive
    34        results" obviously appears under BHT as well at page 27.
    35        I am just commenting that they have different footnote
    36        references, but I think they are the same papers?
    37        A.  Yes, indeed.
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    39   Q.   In each of the footnotes.  Under BHT on page 27 also, at
    40        the bottom, after the sentence ending in footnote 85: "The
    41        US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
    42        have reported that complaints of nasal and respiratory
    43        tract irritation ceased when levels of BHT were reduced
    44        below 10 milligrams per cubic metre."  That is reference
    45        86, but 86 refers to a large amount of data to proclaim the
    46        safety of BHT as a food additive, but is saying there are
    47        no experiments carried out with relation to the safety of
    48        BHT dust.  That is an article on inhalation at work of BHT
    49        dust.
    50        A.  Yes, indeed. 
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    52   Q.   Those are the matters which I have underlined.  I have not 
    53        underlined at the top of page 28 the reference to the
    54        competing claims as to whether antioxidants may cause
    55        chronic illness or have a protective quality.  I have not
    56        underlined any other matters.  So, if I have missed some
    57        reference to direct human evidence, I have worked on the
    58        basis that my attention will be drawn to it.
    59        A.  I think your observations are correct as to which
    60        footnotes provide evidence of direct human effects, and for

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