Day 039 - 20 Oct 94 - Page 28
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2 MR. MORRIS: Yes, please.
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4 MR. JUSTICE BELL: In case again I have missed some reference to
5 human reaction. With regard to BHA on page 21, the first
6 paragraph there.
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8 MR. MORRIS: Is that the first complete paragraph?
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10 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes.
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12 THE WITNESS: And the first sentence of the next paragraph.
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14 MR. JUSTICE BELL: The reference is 53 and, in fact, in my
15 bundle, 53, there is a 53 (a) which concerns rats and
16 53 (b) is the children between the age of six and 15 weeks
17 in a, I think, neonatal or paediatric ward. Then the first
18 sentence in the next paragraph: "There is evidence that
19 BHA and BHT can trigger hyperactivity and other symptoms of
20 intolerance, but not all studies have yielded positive
21 results".
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23 Reference 54 is a number of papers. When we come to BHT on
24 page 27, there is that same comment repeated. The footnote
25 is 85, which I think has the same documents as footnote 54.
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27 MR. MORRIS: I think before you referred to 53.
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29 MR. JUSTICE BELL: 53 is the infants. That comment does not
30 appear, I do not think, in Dr. Millstone's comments on
31 BHT. But the comment, "There is evidence that BHA and BHT
32 can trigger hyperactivity and other symptoms of
33 intolerance, but not all studies have yielded positive
34 results" obviously appears under BHT as well at page 27.
35 I am just commenting that they have different footnote
36 references, but I think they are the same papers?
37 A. Yes, indeed.
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39 Q. In each of the footnotes. Under BHT on page 27 also, at
40 the bottom, after the sentence ending in footnote 85: "The
41 US National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
42 have reported that complaints of nasal and respiratory
43 tract irritation ceased when levels of BHT were reduced
44 below 10 milligrams per cubic metre." That is reference
45 86, but 86 refers to a large amount of data to proclaim the
46 safety of BHT as a food additive, but is saying there are
47 no experiments carried out with relation to the safety of
48 BHT dust. That is an article on inhalation at work of BHT
49 dust.
50 A. Yes, indeed.
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52 Q. Those are the matters which I have underlined. I have not
53 underlined at the top of page 28 the reference to the
54 competing claims as to whether antioxidants may cause
55 chronic illness or have a protective quality. I have not
56 underlined any other matters. So, if I have missed some
57 reference to direct human evidence, I have worked on the
58 basis that my attention will be drawn to it.
59 A. I think your observations are correct as to which
60 footnotes provide evidence of direct human effects, and for
