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2 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Can I say this? If you refer to a page, I
3 do not think you need read it on to the transcript. I
4 have read these now. I will read them again in due
5 course. What will most help me is, I think, we should
6 just go through them by referring to them, that is the
7 specific page references, so that they are on the
8 transcript, so that when we look at the transcripts again,
9 we can be reminded what they were.
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11 If Mr. Cannon wants to stress something which is not
12 totally apparent from the reference itself, I suggest you
13 give him an opportunity to do so as he gives each page
14 reference, but that is all that you need to do.
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16 MR. MORRIS: Yes, thank you. OK, Geoffrey, do you want to
17 continue going through?
18 A. Pages 83 to 87, we have really covered at some length
19 this morning, I think. That is the account of the process
20 that led to the recommendations in the National Academy of
21 Sciences Report, "Diet, Nutrition and Cancer". 132 and 3,
22 I made reference to this morning, this is the European
23 Organisation for Cooperation on Cancer Prevention Studies,
24 which I think I referred to mistakenly this morning as
25 Europe against Cancer. This is the so-called ECP workshop
26 in 1985 which made a concensus statement on provisional
27 dietary guidelines, again rather like the NAS, so they
28 were not quite sure in 1985. Then page 158 -----
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30 MR. MORRIS: There was something on 135, was there not, or has
31 that been dealt with? 134, 135, was this covered by that
32 last point?
33 A. No, that is not. Thank you for pointing that out.
34 No, my book more or less goes in chronological order and
35 this is the document "Healthy Nutrition" which was
36 published by WHO for Europe in 1988, and the relevant
37 passage there, I suppose, is in its Executive Summary on
38 page 135. That summary does not make any reference to the
39 specific foods or nutrients but, of course, the report
40 itself does.
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42 MR. JUSTICE BELL: You have mentioned page 158?
43 A. Yes, 158, again I referred to that this morning. This
44 is the block buster report, National Academy of Sciences
45 in 1989 and this was the point -- and also the Surgeon
46 General's report. These were two reports that were
47 published in the States, I think, in the same year, which
48 I referred to this morning.
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50 I think I would be rather disinclined to point out any
51 particular passage from these, because I think really the
52 most salient point is the general consistency of their
53 recommendations rather than any particular points that
54 they might make.
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56 Then 170 is the first Scottish report. This,
57 incidentally, is not the Scottish report that was referred
58 to this morning. This is a precursor of that published in
59 1990. Then pages 175, not 4, to 7, this is a discussion
60 of the UK COMA Report, the so-called DRV report, which is
