Day 014 - 20 Jul 94 - Page 57
1 MS. STEEL: That is the first one?
2 MR. RAMPTON: The first one.
3 MR. MORRIS: There are two others, are there not?
4 MR. RAMPTON: Yes, there are.
5 MR. MORRIS: So are we including them all?
6 MR. RAMPTON: No, I think for the moment just include the
first. How far we need to take the second as read, you
7 will see in a minute when I have asked about McDonald's
food.
8
MS. STEEL: If we want to take the first one as read, please
9 can we have copies of all the studies that are referred to
in it?
10
MR. RAMPTON: My Lord, the reference to the Finnish study is a
11 study referred to -- I will give the reference,
Dr. Arnott's references No. 21, which is a paper
12 entitled: "Environmental Dietary Factors in Colorectal
Cancer" by a team who have done a lot of work in this
13 field, Ernst Wynder, Bandaru Reddy and others. Its date
is 1991. It makes reference to the Finnish study
14 I mentioned which is Reddy, Hedges, Laakso and Wynder
1978. It is reference 6 in that paper by Wynder, Reddy
15 and others. Page 496 is where they report what the
Finnish study finds.
16
MS. STEEL: I am not clear. Does that mean that the Finnish
17 study is in that file?
18 MR. RAMPTON: No, it means that the Finnish study is not in the
file; no doubt it might be found but not by us. Thank you
19 very much.
20 MR. JUSTICE BELL: What is the position with regard to the
Finnish study because this witness has referred to it?
21
MR. RAMPTON: He has read it. It was my fault; I referred it
22 to him because I had a memory of it from Professor
Walker's reference.
23
MR. JUSTICE BELL: Yes, but are the defendants not entitled to
24 have the reference and, if at all possible, a copy so that
they can check?
25
MR. RAMPTON: The trouble is, your Lordship knows how the
26 system works, experts in these fields do not have the time
-- it would not be humanly possible; they would have to
27 look at thousands of years -- to do the research
themselves. What they do then is review existing
28 authority on the subject and then come to a conclusion.
Each of those papers builds on the existing body of
29 authority, so that when at the top of the pyramid the
latest report is produced, there is underlying it
30 literally hundreds of thousands or, at any rate, thousands
of pre-existing studies.
