Day 064 - 08 Dec 94 - Page 42
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2 Q. Right, so how did McDonald's make that information
3 available to its customers then?
4 A. Nutritional Information was available on request pre-
5 1989.
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7 Q. But that did not include ingredients?
8 A. It did not include ingredients, no.
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10 Q. So it was only in 1989 that the company decided that people
11 could find out what the ingredients were?
12 A. Well, we took a lead from the US company who were
13 already publishing ingredients prior to that date.
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15 Q. So why did you just say that you did it from 1984?
16 A. Well, Nutritional Information -----
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18 Q. No, I was asking you about ingredients.
19 A. OK, specifically on ingredients, no. That is why
20 I said to you, are you asking specifically on ingredients?
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22 Q. You had come under pressure in this country to provide
23 ingredient information, had you not?
24 A. No, I just told you the reason why; we took a lead from
25 our US company.
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27 Q. They were under pressure as well, were they not, to provide
28 ingredient information?
29 A. I do not know. They may have been, but I really do not
30 know, but our lead came from them which was your question.
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32 Q. People had asked for ingredient information in this
33 country, had they not, and you had not been able to provide
34 it?
35 A. No, I have just told you the answer twice. If you
36 cannot accept, you cannot accept it, but I have told you
37 twice why we published that information.
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39 Q. But would you accept that people were asking for that
40 information in this country before you made it available?
41 A. I am not aware that they were.
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43 Q. When they applied for that information they were told they
44 could not have it?
45 A. I have just told you, I am not aware that they were
46 asking for it.
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48 Q. Are you saying that they were not?
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50 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, he is. He has said he was not aware. In
51 due course you can put a document before me, I remember
52 seeing a letter and an answer, and you can say: "Look,
53 there we are, they were being asked". If you want to ask
54 me to draw some conclusion from that in relation to this
55 witness's evidence, you can. You can say: "He must not
56 have been telling you the truth when he said he was not
57 aware or, if he was not aware, he ought to have been for
58 this reason". But there must be a limit to which you can
59 explore matters with a witness who says, for better or
60 worse: "I am not aware of this" or "I do not know".
