Day 005 - 04 Jul 94 - Page 29
1 A. OK, 22.
2 Q. After all the ingredients, sugar, egg, cream, butter and
the glucose syrup, cocoa, starting with emulcifiers, what
3 follows on from there? I am not asking you to read it, I
am asking you to say what those things are?
4 A. I would not have a clue; I do not know what they are.
5 Q. You do not know whether they are commonly known as
additives?
6 A. I have no idea. I would think anything you put into
something could be termed an additive. You add some
7 vanilla flavouring to something, you have added
something. I do not know what they are.
8
Q. Does it appear to you that some of them are chemicals?
9 A. I have no idea.
10 Q. Disodium, dihydrogen diphosphate, does that sound like a
chemical?
11
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Everything is chemical.
12
MISS STEEL: It does not sound like flour, does it?
13
MR. JUSTICE BELL: No. What you are putting is it is a pure
14 chemical ---
15 MISS STEEL: Yes.
16 MR. JUSTICE BELL: -- as opposed to something with chemical
content?
17
MISS STEEL: Yes.
18
MR. JUSTICE BELL: All food has obviously got chemical
19 content.
A. Picking one, for example. It says citric acid --
20 that is not an acid; it is vitamin C.
21 MISS STEEL: What about diphosphate and sodium bicarbonate?
A. Sodium bicarbonate I ought to know. Bicarbonate -- it
22 is something I brush my teeth with occasionally many
mornings.
23
Q. But it is generally a chemical; it is not like something
24 that just happens to have a chemical in it?
A. If I put it in my mouth to brush my teeth I guess I
25 consider it -- by implication, as it is chemical and it is
bad, I use it as a chemical and I like what it does to my
26 teeth.
27 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In my limited experience of cake making, it
goes into a lot of cakes.
28
MISS STEEL: I am not saying it does not. I am saying it does
29 appear there are chemicals in the birthday cake, whether
or not they are good or bad?
30 A. There are ingredients common to baking cakes, yes. If
that is what you want me to say, I will say it.
