Day 252 - 20 May 96 - Page 53


     
     1        is possible.
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Page?
     4
     5   MR. MORRIS:  108.  That was the one with the table.  (Same
     6        handed)  Can you see the note?
     7        A.   I am sorry?
     8
     9   MR. MORRIS:  I wanted to point to the little (b) underneath the
    10        chart as well, which describes the top right-hand figure
    11        which describes the 30 percent as "an interim goal".
    12
    13   MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I made a note of that.  Yes, thank you.
    14
    15   MR. MORRIS:  If we could just go back to page 158.  We were just
    16        looking at that before, Professor Naismith, because there
    17        is one thing I wanted to look at.  Page 158?
    18        A.  Yes.
    19
    20   Q.   At the bottom of page 158, there are the recommendations.
    21        In the last line, it says:
    22
    23        "The local food industry" -- that means in every country --
    24        "should be encouraged to develop processing techniques
    25        that do not add fats, sugar to salt to food products."
    26
    27        Do you know of any initiative that the organisations you
    28        have worked for in industry have actually taken up this
    29        advice to look at reducing the fat, salt and sugar content
    30        of their food products?
    31        A.   I am not at all looking at that sentence in isolation
    32        what "local food industry" is being referred to.  If this
    33        is an international document, WHO, or are we referring to
    34        Arkwright or Liverpool?  I do not know what food industry
    35        has been talked about here.
    36
    37   Q.   Well, has the food industry in this country made any
    38        serious attempts to address serious concerns about fats,
    39        salt and sugar.
    40
    41   MR. RAMPTON:  Your Lordship does not know because your Lordship
    42        has not got a copy but, in fact, that paragraph concerns
    43        developing countries, so it would appear.  It is all about
    44        developing countries.
    45        A.   I think that is the point I was making.  Companies,
    46        food companies in the United Kingdom do not add these
    47        constituents that you have mentioned unless they are an
    48        integral part of the food.  It is not something they do
    49        deliberately.
    50 
    51   MR. MORRIS:  Mr. Rampton is right.  I was trying to save time 
    52        there, but it talks about: 
    53
    54        "In developing countries the products have the opportunity
    55        to intervene before the typical dietary patterns
    56        traditionally associated affluence become widespread and
    57        established within their populations", so, basically,  they
    58        should consider not going the same way as Western food
    59        industry has gone?
    60        A.   That might be a good idea, yes.

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