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1 products and salt and low in fibre?
2 A. Yes, it is difficult to interpret this, with respect,
3 literally. I think that -- I mean, if you are saying that
4 McDonald's food is very unhealthy because it is high in fat
5 and certainly low in fibre, these are the two points on
6 which I am giving evidence, I would agree that that is true
7 and I would agree that diets that are high in fat and low
8 in fibre are the diets that constitute a real risk to heart
9 disease and to, certainly as far as the evidence goes,
10 cancer of the colon which is the one where the evidence is
11 hardest.
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13 Q. Well, you could comment on the last part if you want, but I
14 do not know whether that particularly.... Did you want to
15 say anything else?
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17 MR. RAMPTON: I not sure he can say anything else. It is your
18 Lordship's province, it seems to me.
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20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
21 A. I do not think I would want to say anything about the
22 last sentence.
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24 MS. STEEL: No further questions.
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26 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, thank you.
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28 Cross-examined (continued) by MR. RAMPTON
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30 Q. Professor Crawford, you will forgive me, I hope, if in
31 continuing my cross-examination I confine myself to your
32 most recent work, since it is a good deal more detailed
33 than the original one. Do you agree?
34 A. Yes, I am very happy with that.
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36 Q. In a sense an amplification, is it not, for the most part?
37 A. For the most part, yes.
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39 MS. STEEL: I am not sure I am happy about that because Mr.
40 Rampton was supposed to be cross-examining Mr. Crawford
41 even whether or not we got a new statement, and if he is
42 going to challenge what was said on the previous occasion
43 when he is giving his summing-up, you did say to him that
44 he was supposed to challenge it, put it to Professor
45 Crawford because he may have some relevant clarification or
46 whatever to make in terms of any criticism that Mr. Rampton
47 may make. So I am not really sure that that is proper
48 course.
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Well, I think it is up to Mr. Rampton how he
51 conducts his cross-examination. I expressed my view on the
52 previous occasion. Having expressed the view that I would
53 be reluctant to listen to Mr. Rampton's own construction of
54 articles when he had not tried it out on a witness, the
55 most obvious one being Professor Crawford, that so far as
56 your case is concerned and where I have not already had
57 evidence on particular articles, I propose to adhere to
58 that.
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60 It is up to Mr. Rampton which of the articles, if any, he
