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     1        The same kind of recommendations are now being made about
     2        cancer and diet that were being made about heart disease
     3        and diet in the mid-70s.  We had the COMA Report, the
     4        Government report, the Royal College of Physicians report,
     5        the WHO FEO conjoint report, and already by the time that
     6        that report was published in 1978, I think I referred to
     7        some 23 other expert bodies who had reviewed the evidence
     8        on diet and heart disease and we presented a table in the
     9        report of the similarities between these 23 expert bodies
    10        and that such differences existed.  But, by and large,
    11        they came to some sort of corporate view about the link
    12        between dietary fats and heart disease.  That is the sort
    13        of position we are at in the late 80s with regard to
    14        cancer.
    15
    16   Q.   With this possibly important qualification, that does not
    17        mean at this stage I accept what you have just told me;
    18        obviously I will have to go away and find out whether you
    19        are right about that -- you said it is a personal view and
    20        the cancer people might disagree with you -- but with this
    21        important qualification in any event, as I understand it,
    22        that what you propose as being the influence of diet on
    23        cancer is in the promotion of cancers which have already
    24        been initiated?
    25        A.  Yes.
    26
    27   Q.   That is an important distinction?
    28        A.  It is.
    29
    30   MR. RAMPTON:  Thank you.  My Lord, that is all I have to ask.
    31
    32   THE WITNESS:  Could I add to that your Lordship?
    33
    34   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes.
    35
    36   THE WITNESS:  That not necessarily exclusively.
    37
    38   MR. RAMPTON:  No, I understand that.  We may discuss that
    39        further in due course, Professor Crawford.
    40
    41   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  When do we anticipate we might come back to
    42        Professor Crawford?
    43
    44   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, can I hand up a retyped calendar and at
    45        the same time an updated of the "What Happened in Court"
    46        diary.
    47
    48   MR. MORRIS:  Is the witness released now?
    49
    50   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Yes. 
    51 
    52                       (The witness withdrew) 
    53
    54   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I hope I do not need to say it, but just
    55        the same I would invite your Lordship to remind the
    56        Defendants that both Mr. Cannon and Professor Crawford are
    57        in perdah so far as the Defendants are concerned until
    58        they have finished their evidence.
    59
    60   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Remember that.

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