Day 246 - 09 May 96 - Page 45


     
     1        If you look at the next paragraph:
     2
     3        "Yet we already offer healthier options in the
     4        restaurants.  The recently introduced pizza and bran
     5        muffins for example have provided products high in fibre
     6        content.".
     7
     8        You agree with that, do you?
     9        A.  "Pizza and bran muffins for example provide high
    10        fibre", yes, I do.
    11
    12   Q.   And you agree that they are healthier options:
    13
    14        "Yet we already offer healthier options in the restaurants,
    15        the recent introduced pizza and bran muffins for example".
    16
    17        They are the examples of the healthier options; yes?
    18        A.  I think they are, yes.  They certainly are from a fibre
    19        stand point.  As I remember the facts, they are higher than
    20        anything else we had here before but I cannot remember all
    21        the data; I am sorry.
    22
    23   Q.   That is fine.  I can move on now.  Thank you very much.
    24
    25   MS. STEEL:   Just while we are on that.  You consider that it
    26        amounts to real progress to reduce the sugar and salt
    27        contents of your products.  You stand by that, do you?
    28        A.  I stand by the efforts to try and improve the
    29        nutritional content of our food.  Lower fats is important
    30        and we have done just that.
    31
    32   Q.   Yes, and you think that that is progress?
    33        A.  Definitely.
    34
    35   Q.   Right.
    36
    37   MR. MORRIS:  But you stand by what is said on this page
    38        basically?
    39        A.  Which?
    40
    41   Q.   On the page that we have just looked at, you stand by
    42        everything that is said there; do you?
    43        A.  I stand by what is on that page, a question of balance,
    44        yes.
    45
    46   Q.   OK.  Thank you.  I just want to ask you:  Are you sure the
    47        Company had no representatives on any of the Health of the
    48        Nation Committees?
    49        A.  I do not think so.
    50 
    51   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Why do you not suggest one if you think there 
    52        was one? 
    53
    54   MR. MORRIS:  I seem to remember either Jeffrey Cannon or Sue
    55        Dibbs was mentioning the fact that McDonald's was on the
    56        same committee or something, Fast Food Committee..
    57
    58   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Mr. Preston cannot help as.
    59
    60   MR. MORRIS:  No, he cannot help.  That cuts out a few questions

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