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1 The results of their research are confidential between the
2 government and the Research Association, but my contacts
3 with people involved in that lead to me to understand that
4 some of the earliest evidence that there may be residues
5 emerged, I think, 85/86. There was then a dispute about
6 the reliability and precision of those experiments. It was
7 not until 1989 that it was decided that the results which
8 had earlier been found were, indeed, an accurate reflection
9 of what was present in the baked products.
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11 MR. MORRIS: The replacement was found straightaway, was it,
12 once it was withdrawn?
13 A. I believe the baking industry has found itself
14 perfectly able to get by with other ingredients that were
15 and continue to be permitted.
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17 Q. Is it safe to assume that when it became known that it was
18 carcinogenic there would have been adequate alternatives?
19 A. Well, since there were adequate alternatives in 1989,
20 I am sure there were adequate alternatives in 1983. No
21 further compounds were introduced for this particular use
22 in that period ---
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24 Q. Is there anything ---
25 A. -- to the best of my knowledge.
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27 Q. -- in document 121 which you have asked us to look at which
28 takes us any further? This is the Food Advisory Committee
29 Report on the Review of the use of Potassium Bromate in
30 food in 1989?
31 A. Which number is that?
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33 Q. 121. In your statement you have written, it is under 120,
34 but you have written 2 by mistake.
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36 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I think the problem is we only go up to 115.
37 A. That is right. I do not have 122 here at all. I think
38 it simply confirms what is already established. I am not
39 sure. That would be the place where you should go to find
40 documentary confirmation of an acknowledgment of the
41 genotoxic carcinogenicity of Potassium Bromate.
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43 MR. MORRIS: They have all been served on the Plaintiffs.
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45 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Would I get any more from those than what you
46 have just told me about the history, Dr. Millstone?
47 A. No, I think you probably get slightly less from them.
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49 MS. STEEL: What is possible is that it is in the bundles under
50 109 because that is its old reference number in the old
51 statement.
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53 THE WITNESS: Yes, you are right.
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55 MR. MORRIS: On the second page of the text, point 6, there is
56 some kind of background.
57 A. Yes, that suggests -----
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59 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Which page are you on?
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