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     2   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Can I say this?  If you refer to a page, I
     3        do not think you need read it on to the transcript.  I
     4        have read these now.  I will read them again in due
     5        course.  What will most help me is, I think, we should
     6        just go through them by referring to them, that is the
     7        specific page references, so that they are on the
     8        transcript, so that when we look at the transcripts again,
     9        we can be reminded what they were.
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    11        If Mr. Cannon wants to stress something which is not
    12        totally apparent from the reference itself, I suggest you
    13        give him an opportunity to do so as he gives each page
    14        reference, but that is all that you need to do.
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    16   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, thank you.  OK, Geoffrey, do you want to
    17        continue going through?
    18        A.  Pages 83 to 87, we have really covered at some length
    19        this morning, I think.  That is the account of the process
    20        that led to the recommendations in the National Academy of
    21        Sciences Report, "Diet, Nutrition and Cancer".  132 and 3,
    22        I made reference to this morning, this is the European
    23        Organisation for Cooperation on Cancer Prevention Studies,
    24        which I think I referred to mistakenly this morning as
    25        Europe against Cancer.  This is the so-called ECP workshop
    26        in 1985 which made a concensus statement on provisional
    27        dietary guidelines, again rather like the NAS, so they
    28        were not quite sure in 1985.  Then page 158 -----
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    30   MR. MORRIS:  There was something on 135, was there not, or has
    31        that been dealt with?  134, 135, was this covered by that
    32        last point?
    33        A.  No, that is not.  Thank you for pointing that out.
    34        No, my book more or less goes in chronological order and
    35        this is the document "Healthy Nutrition" which was
    36        published by WHO for Europe in 1988, and the relevant
    37        passage there, I suppose, is in its Executive Summary on
    38        page 135.  That summary does not make any reference to the
    39        specific foods or nutrients but, of course, the report
    40        itself does.
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    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You have mentioned page 158?
    43        A.  Yes, 158, again I referred to that this morning.  This
    44        is the block buster report, National Academy of Sciences
    45        in 1989 and this was the point -- and also the Surgeon
    46        General's report.  These were two reports that were
    47        published in the States, I think, in the same year, which
    48        I referred to this morning.
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    50        I think I would be rather disinclined to point out any 
    51        particular passage from these, because I think really the 
    52        most salient point is the general consistency of their 
    53        recommendations rather than any particular points that
    54        they might make.
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    56        Then 170 is the first Scottish report.  This,
    57        incidentally, is not the Scottish report that was referred
    58        to this morning.  This is a precursor of that published in
    59        1990.  Then pages 175, not 4, to 7, this is a discussion
    60        of the UK COMA Report, the so-called DRV report, which is

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