Day 252 - 20 May 96 - Page 53
1 is possible.
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3 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Page?
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5 MR. MORRIS: 108. That was the one with the table. (Same
6 handed) Can you see the note?
7 A. I am sorry?
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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".
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13 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, I made a note of that. Yes, thank you.
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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.
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20 Q. At the bottom of page 158, there are the recommendations.
21 In the last line, it says:
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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51 MR. MORRIS: Mr. Rampton is right. I was trying to save time
52 there, but it talks about:
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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.
