Day 012 - 18 Jul 94 - Page 63
1
Q. Any nutrients?
2 A. Yes.
3 Q. So, for example, a chocolate bar has some nutrients in it?
A. I do not know.
4
Q. You do not know?
5 A. I am not familiar with the ingredients of a chocolate
bar.
6
Q. If a chocolate bar had some milk in it, it would have some
7 nutrients?
A. Yes, I suspect that is true.
8
Q. Would you call a chocolate bar nutritious?
9 A. I suspect if I had all of the ingredients in front of
me, I suspect a chocolate bar can be nutritious, yes,
10 certainly can be part of a well balanced diet.
11 Q. What you do you mean by that comment?
A. I am not sure what more to say than that. A chocolate
12 bar can be part of any person's diet if eaten in
moderation.
13
Q. Right as a treat, or something like that?
14 A. Certainly not 21 times a week.
15 Q. No. Do you think it provides much in the way of
nutrition?
16 A. I am not too familiar with chocolate bars.
17 Q. Do you actually know much about nutrition yourself or are
you just here to explain the legal side of things?
18 A. The answer is I am not a nutritionist. My primary
involvement is from a legal perspective.
19
Q. I think you told us earlier that McDonald's decided to
20 voluntarily provide listings of its ingredients?
A. That is correct.
21
Q. Do you know when that decision was made?
22 A. So as not to guess at your question, could you be a
little bit more specific? Are you talking about the
23 nutrition brochure, because the ingredients of our foods
has been available for years to the consumer.
24
Q. I am referring to the ones where you are saying that you
25 were not forced to produce these booklets and the various
Attorneys General are under the distinct impression that
26 you only provided them because they forced the issue?
A. OK, and your question was?
27
Q. You said that you did it voluntarily, I am asking you when
28 that decision was made?
A. Well, a number of months, I cannot remember how many
29 months, but certainly a number of months prior to the time
we put them into New York and New Jersey and Connecticut
30 and Washington and that was, I believe, in April of the
year prior to the time we did the nutrition advertisements
