Day 039 - 20 Oct 94 - Page 39
1 have reacted positively to BHA and/or BHT, that corresponds
2 to about 12 -- these are percentages, are they not? Yes,
3 it is 15 per cent, not 15 people. Uncertain 12 per cent,
4 73 per cent negative. Yes, they also tested glutamate,
5 monosodium glutamate, with four per cent of urticaria
6 sufferers seem to respond adversely to monosodium
7 glutamate.
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9 Q. Can we make a note then that 18 per cent responded
10 positively to azo-dyes?
11 A. And, hopefully, it should not too difficult to obtain
12 page 376. I will take a note of that. I will try to get
13 that missing page.
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15 Q. Is there anything else in this document we need to look at?
16 A. Not that particularly leaps out at me.
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18 Q. If we go to the last one in tab 54?
19 A. The penultimate one "Contact dermatitis from
20 antioxidants".
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22 MS. STEEL: That is?
23 A. Jytte Roed-Petersen and Niels Hjorth, published in the
24 British Journal of Dermitology in 1976, and the main
25 results on the skin tests with these compounds are given
26 towards the bottom of page 234.
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28 MR. JUSTICE BELL: This is putting it on the skin?
29 A. Yes.
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31 Q. Not ingestion?
32 A. Yes, that is indeed.
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34 MR. MORRIS: These are the patients who had eczema, dermatitis?
35 A. Yes, then you want to know the final paper in this
36 group is Hannuksela and Lahti, Finland, and the key results
37 -- hang on, some pages are missing from this copy, it ends
38 rather abruptly. I do not have the complete -- yes, this
39 stops. I have only got here pages 178 and 179.
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41 Q. Which one are we on now?
42 A. This is the Hannuksela and Lahti. Do you also have
43 just the one page?
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45 Q. It ends on page 180 here.
46 A. I do not have page -- it ought to go to a page 180.
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48 MS. STEEL: We have a spare copy.
49 A. Page 180 is missing from this set.
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51 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can you just help me? Table 2, I see BHT and
52 BHA were given in capsules of 50 milligrams, and then it is
53 the asterisk beneath that, the dose was one plus two
54 capsules given at one hour intervals. Does that refer to
55 that table?
56 A. I think it does; it indicates how much -----
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58 Q. Or is there an asterisk somewhere else on the page?
59 A. Sorry, my eyesight is deteriorating. I cannot see the
60 asterisk other than at the bottom of that table.
