Day 030 - 03 Oct 94 - Page 71
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2 Q. Can I go back to 1988, please? I am sorry about this, but
3 for this purpose you will need the same peacock blue
4 volume, the Defendants' list of documents, bundle 2,
5 documents 26 to 59. Please turn, not quite to the end, to
6 tab 58 which, I hope, is a document called: "Can you
7 avoid cancer?"
8 A. Yes.
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10 Q. "A guide to reducing your risks". It appears to have been
11 published with funding from the EEC, as it was then
12 called, as part of the UK response to the Europe Against
13 Cancer Initiative. Yes?
14 A. Yes.
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16 Q. One of the documents to which you make reference in your
17 latest report comes from the Europe against Cancer
18 Initiative, does it not?
19 A. Yes.
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21 Q. We are going back to that shortly. You will see, if you
22 turn the next page, that this is the copyright of the
23 Health Education Authority in 1988. Can we take it, from
24 your viewpoint, that this too, though it is not expressed
25 in the same technical language as the COMA Report of 1991
26 is, for this period 88,/89 this too represents a state of
27 the art knowledge?
28 A. Probably at that time, yes.
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30 Q. You will not find any final page numbers on it, but you
31 will, I hope, find internal page numbers on the left-hand
32 side. There are small numbers sometimes in the right-hand
33 side, sometimes on the left, small numbers at the bottom
34 of the page. I hope you can find page 18.
35 A. Yes.
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37 Q. Which is headed "Food", subheaded "Obesity". Do you have
38 it?
39 A. Yes, I have it.
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41 Q. I just ask you again to read that column. Ignore the left
42 hand bites on the left. Just read the main column,
43 please, to yourself from "Food" right down to the bottom
44 of the page and tell me when you have finished.
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46 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It is your cross-examination, of course. Do
47 you think he should read what is in the left-hand margin
48 on page 18?
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50 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, by all means. I was trying to save time.
51 Read the left-hand margin. Read the whole right-hand
52 column and over the page, under the picture of bread, down
53 to the heading "vitamins", but no need to go any further.
54 You will need that to complete the section.
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56 MS. STEEL: I think the "What you can do" column might be
57 relevant as well.
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59 MR. RAMPTON: Have you read that?
60 A. Sufficiently, I think, yes.
