Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 69
1 Crawford has said because I did not want to slow things
2 down, as it would have done to a very large degree if it
3 had attempted to get a full note.
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5 MR. RAMPTON: Your Lordship will get complete set of transcripts
6 at the end of the evidence anyway as will---
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8 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think at the moment I am getting it on a
9 delay basis but my point with Professor Crawford is, it is
10 particularly important that for instance, the various acids
11 are properly identified, or it may be, and I know the
12 Barnett Lenton have ways of checking, but it may in this
13 case, if you are prepared to help Professor Crawford, mean
14 that you may actually be sent some pages of the
15 transcript. You will not be asked to pass any comment on
16 it, but you may be asked to make sure that the spelling of
17 this acid or that acid is correct?
18 A. We have been having conversations and I will be pleased
19 to do that.
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21 Q. I understand that but if it has become too large an
22 exercise to actually do in Court while you are here?
23 A. There is no problem with that.
24
25 Q. We would be grateful for your assistance later?
26 A. Yes.
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28 Q. Thank you.
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30 MR. RAMPTON: Have you still got open the page of your later
31 report, the latest statement?
32 A. Yes, indeed.
33
34 Q. Under the heading "Indirect effect" which is at 2.2."
35 A. Yes.
36
37 Q. Second paragraph you have written: "There is no doubting
38 the fact that death from heart disease rose strikingly from
39 1950 to the late 1980's in parallel with the rise in the
40 amount of dietary saturated fat and associated
41 trans-isomers."
42 A. Yes.
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44 Q. Do you think 1980's might not be a misprint for 1970's?
45 A. It plateaued 80's, that is true. I do not mind in you
46 wish to take it before it began to plateau at the beginning
47 of the 80's.
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49 Q. I am not willing to accept a plateau. I have got what I
50 think is a flat mountain which starts to descend. I will
51 show to it you. It is in COMA 46?
52 A. Yes, the book on the British Heart Foundation
53 statistics gives the diagram from which I was working and I
54 am happy to change that to 1970's.
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56 Q. I did ask to be sent your references, but it did not
57 happen.
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59 MR. MORRIS: Well, I offered them this morning but nobody wanted
60 them.
