Day 247 - 10 May 96 - Page 39
1 need check that you agree with that unless you want to give
2 Mr. Preston the opportunity to disagree with it?
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4 MR. RAMPTON: Quite, and what is more it is virtually identical
5 to material which was read to Mr. Preston on Tuesday.
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7 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I have not read it through; I might read it
8 through for general interest since, either now or in the
9 past, it seems to have been rather a good read. School
10 children are told to go and write a project on some local
11 business and it can involve them in an enormous amount of
12 work. If I had known you had done this, I think I would
13 have suggested my younger daughter asked for the McDonald's
14 Pack, rather than spending days and days trying to get
15 information off someone else, but that is what it is all
16 for.
17 A. That is what it is for.
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19 Q. And you would hope that it is accurate, I assume?
20 A. It certainly was at that moment in time and it would be
21 updated as we saw fit. It is purely in response to the
22 hundreds of requests that we get from students for
23 information about ourselves.
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25 Q. They are always doing projects on things like that.
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27 MR. MORRIS: Can I ask you about one of the points under the
28 Healthy Eating Policy, under the subheading 'Products'.
29 The third paragraph reads:
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31 "McDonald's is committed to reducing, where practical, the
32 amount of additives, especially preservatives and
33 colourants in products."
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35 Have there been, since that time, any success in reducing
36 the amount of additives, especially preservatives and
37 colourants, since 1994 that you know of?
38 A. I do not know for sure.
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40 Q. Have there been any colourants or preservatives removed
41 from products since 1989, do you know?
42 A. I think so, but I could not say at the moment which
43 ones.
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45 Q. There was the one that was banned. That was the flour that
46 was banned as carcinogenic I think?
47 A. There was Tartrazine I think. It is an orange colour,
48 I think. We did away with that.
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50 Q. That was in line with your Healthy Eating Policy to reduce
51 the amount of colourants and preservatives?
52 A. Yes.
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54 Q. If we move on from that to Nutritional Development, which
55 is about 4 pages further on. It says Nutritional
56 Development. It is a summary. We have heard a lot of this
57 kind of material before in the case.
58 A. I have got it.
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60 Q. It has a section about additives there. On the top of the
