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1 as a proportion of the total problem in the UK, I am in no
2 position to judge.
3
4 Q. How many years is that?
5 A. Well, it started when I first published something on
6 that which is in the New Scientist -- you have my CV --
7 I am not sure whether that was 1984 or 1985.
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9 Q. So, for about nine or 10 years?
10 A. Nine or 10 years, I have been getting them at that rate
11 on average, yes.
12
13 Q. About 100, 120 a year?
14 A. Yes.
15
16 Q. Quite a lot?
17 A. That is what it feels like, yes. I have not counted
18 them all up.
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20 MR. RAMPTON: Where are they?
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22 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Have you reduced them to some kind of summary
23 or analysis or record?
24 A. Only particular fractions of them; mainly those have
25 been reactions that have been ascribed to artificial
26 sweeteners which is one area upon which I have not
27 concentrated in my own work but which seems not to be at
28 issue here.
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30 Q. Have you had a system -- you get a telephone conversation
31 -- of noting down what you have been told every time or
32 virtually every time?
33 A. If it is generalised -- yes -- if it is a generalised
34 reaction; I mean, some people will say: "Oh, my child
35 suffers from additives", that goes in my filing system
36 under "Intolerance" or "Hyperactivity". But, if it is
37 specifically a problem with colours or preservatives or
38 antioxidants, it then gets filed under those headings and
39 incorporated in my documents on those topics.
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41 MR. MORRIS: If we move on to the specific compounds. What we
42 will try to do is we will move fairly quickly through them,
43 but they are being taken as read. But the first one is
44 sodium nitrite, I believe?
45 A. Sorry, how are you choosing the order?
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47 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You can go in any order you want; it is
48 easiest probably to go in the order in -----
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50 MR. MORRIS: What is the first one?
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52 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Sunset Yellow.
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54 MR. MORRIS: If we start off with Sunset Yellow.
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56 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think they either do follow, or broadly
57 follow, the order in the extract from the pleadings.
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59 MR. MORRIS: Yes. Sunset Yellow in the pleadings says -----
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