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1 always put their case.
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3 As we have said this morning, the proposed amendments do
4 not clarify the issues in dispute; they go considerably
5 further than the issues currently in dispute,
6 because "cause" is stronger than "linked" and, probably
7 more importantly, because "meals" is far, far stronger than
8 the "nutritional content of an average meal", which relates
9 to diet, which is talking about the nutritional content as
10 in fat and fibre.
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is the nutritional content which you
13 thought F originally involved; and how is that different
14 from reducing "contents of an average McDonald's meal" to
15 the word "meal"?
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17 MS. STEEL: Because, taken from the leaflet, it describes the
18 contents of an average McDonald's meal, and that statement
19 is in relation to what is said directly before it in the
20 leaflet. It is quite clear that it is talking in the
21 leaflet about the nutritional content; it is the
22 nutritional content of the diet, being high in fat, et
23 cetera, and low in fibre.
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25 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I understand that, but does not F1 as
26 proposed involve the nutritional content as well?
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28 MS. STEEL: It goes further.
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30 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In what respect?
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32 MS. STEEL: It indicates that a single meal could be capable of
33 causing cancer.
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: If one put "causally" in front of "linked"
36 in F, as it originally was, the same would apply, would it
37 not?
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39 MS. STEEL: No, it would not.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Why?
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43 MS. STEEL: Because in F1 it is talking about the content, as in
44 the fat and the fibre. It is the fat and the fibre in
45 relation to dietary intake of those things that is linked
46 with cancers of the breast and bowel. It is not the
47 specific content of a single meal.
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I may be being stupid, but I do not at the
50 moment see the difference.
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52 MR. MORRIS: Obviously, if we are talking about a single meal,
53 it is the content of the meal that is important. The point
54 about the change is not that the -- the word "contents" in
55 F, clearly, is not just referring to a single meal but to
56 those kinds of things.
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58 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which you find in food anywhere?
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60 MR. MORRIS: Yes -- fat, fibre, and whatever.
