Day 269 - 25 Jun 96 - Page 56
1 you can retard the development of cancer in that way.
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3 These are very interesting results but I do not think they
4 are actually pertinent to this issue.
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6 Q. I do not understand then why you cited it in support of
7 your original statement.
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9 MS. STEEL: I do not think it was cited in the report, if you
10 look at the statement.
11 A. I believe, if I remember correctly, my Lord, I think I
12 was citing this as one of the cases where the linolenic
13 acid had been accused, if you like, in the general public
14 of being a cause of cancer. There were lots of reports
15 around that time in the lay press about polyunsaturated
16 fatty acids causing cancer, which emerged from this kind of
17 work, which is why that work had to be taken very seriously
18 by the conjoint expert committee in Rome.
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20 Q. I follow all that, but surely there is a broader lesson to
21 be learned from work of this kind, is there not, that you
22 have to be acutely conscious --
23 A. Yes.
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25 Q. -- of the defects of extrapolating from animals to humans?
26 A. Absolutely. I have no quarrel with that.
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28 MS. STEEL: Can I just say the reference to this study is on
29 page 9 of this second statement.
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31 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, but I think what you have said a moment
32 ago appeared at the bottom of page 2 and top of page 3 of
33 your second statement?
34 A. Yes.
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36 MR. RAMPTON: Can we then go to the third page.
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38 MR. MORRIS: When we said second statement, we are assuming
39 there are three statements.
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41 MR. JUSTICE BELL: There is. The third one is the one which was
42 read this morning. Could I just pause a moment.
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44 MR. RAMPTON: Sorry, my Lord.
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46 MR. MORRIS: I think you just said second statement, when you
47 meant the third statement
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49 MR. JUSTICE BELL: No, I said second statement because I meant
50 the statement which was the second of the two which we had
51 before us in October of 1994.
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53 MR. MORRIS: Okay.
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55 MR. JUSTICE BELL: They had a section linolenic acid and which
56 said much of what Professor Crawford has said. I just want
57 to check something.
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59 MS. STEEL: The actual reference to Ip is at the bottom of page
60 9 of the second statement.
