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     1        as a proportion of the total problem in the UK, I am in no
     2        position to judge.
     3
     4   Q.   How many years is that?
     5        A.  Well, it started when I first published something on
     6        that which is in the New Scientist -- you have my CV --
     7        I am not sure whether that was 1984 or 1985.
     8
     9   Q.   So, for about nine or 10 years?
    10        A.  Nine or 10 years, I have been getting them at that rate
    11        on average, yes.
    12
    13   Q.   About 100, 120 a year?
    14        A.  Yes.
    15
    16   Q.   Quite a lot?
    17        A.  That is what it feels like, yes.  I have not counted
    18        them all up.
    19
    20   MR. RAMPTON:  Where are they?
    21
    22   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Have you reduced them to some kind of summary
    23        or analysis or record?
    24        A.  Only particular fractions of them; mainly those have
    25        been reactions that have been ascribed to artificial
    26        sweeteners which is one area upon which I have not
    27        concentrated in my own work but which seems not to be at
    28        issue here.
    29
    30   Q.   Have you had a system -- you get a telephone conversation
    31         -- of noting down what you have been told every time or
    32        virtually every time?
    33        A.  If it is generalised -- yes -- if it is a generalised
    34        reaction; I mean, some people will say:   "Oh, my child
    35        suffers from additives", that goes in my filing system
    36        under "Intolerance" or "Hyperactivity".  But, if it is
    37        specifically a problem with colours or preservatives or
    38        antioxidants, it then gets filed under those headings and
    39        incorporated in my documents on those topics.
    40
    41   MR. MORRIS:  If we move on to the specific compounds.  What we
    42        will try to do is we will move fairly quickly through them,
    43        but they are being taken as read.  But the first one is
    44        sodium nitrite, I believe?
    45        A.  Sorry, how are you choosing the order?
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  You can go in any order you want; it is
    48        easiest probably to go in the order in -----
    49
    50   MR. MORRIS:  What is the first one? 
    51 
    52   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Sunset Yellow. 
    53
    54   MR. MORRIS:  If we start off with Sunset Yellow.
    55
    56   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think they either do follow, or broadly
    57        follow, the order in the extract from the pleadings.
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  Sunset Yellow in the pleadings says -----
    60

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