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     1        research related to whether or not there were emissions
              from polystyrene foam, and whether or not those emissions
     2        included chemicals other than the ones that McDonald's
              asserted and, in addition, whether or not those were
     3        potentially dangerous.
 
     4   Q.   Can you go, please, to the last page before the
              references; it must be 128?
     5        A.  OK.
 
     6   Q.   One sees the conclusions set out in a set of seven
              numbered subparagraphs.  I want you to look at the last
     7        one.  "When compared with other common natural and
              synthetic building materials, the thermal decomposition
     8        products of polystyrene appear to be among the least
              toxic."
     9
              We have the least toxic already.  This is a report about
    10        the behaviour of materials commonly used in the
              construction industry, is it not?
    11        A.  That would be correct, yes.
 
    12   Q.   What?
              A.  Yes.
    13
         Q.   That is correct?
    14        A.  The essential concern is with regard to fire fighters.
 
    15   Q.   That is what this magazine is all about, fire and
              materials?  It is for specialists in that field.  It has
    16        not got any specific application to the materials which
              McDonald's uses for its food packaging, does it?
    17        A.  I think it is specific in the sense that it deals with
              polystyrene combustion.
    18
         Q.   Why did you not put into your statement for the benefit of
    19        this court that that is the kind polystyrene, that is the
              kind of material, with which this report was concerned,
    20        building materials?
              A.  I did not think that it was material at the time that
    21        I wrote my statement.
 
    22   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, the last is landfills, so shall I finish
              or shall I go on?
    23
         MR. JUSTICE BELL:  How long do you think you will be because I
    24        think we break off It is -----
 
    25   MR. RAMPTON:  I have just to deal with a few figures really,
              but that is a tiring exercise.  Perhaps it is late for 
    26        everybody. 
  
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.  I think we will break off until the
              morning.
    28
         MR. RAMPTON:  Would your Lordship consider -- I nearly lost
    29        Professor Duxbury; he went back to Strathclyde in such a
              fury -- either deferring Mr. Lipsett until after Professor
    30        Duxbury.  It may be he will find something useful in
              Professor Duxbury's evidence, I do not know, or else

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