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     1        between fat and cardiovascular disease than there is
     2        between fat and cancer.  So the World Health Organisation
     3        has an advisory role to play.  I think what they have said
     4        here in 1990 is reasonable but no more than that.  They
     5        make the very point in their conclusion that they cannot
     6        be sure about what the relationship is, though it does
     7        appear that the relationship of fat and the development of
     8        cancer is the one which is strongest.
     9
    10   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.  I do not know.  It does say after that -- I
    11        do not think it is a direct quote -- it says, "Since then
    12        further evidence has emerged which supports the finding
    13        shown in [the] Table [above]".  That is not the World
    14        Health Organisation.  If we can just move on from that.
    15        Just to point out, The Scottish Diet report is published
    16        by the Scottish Home Office, Scottish Office Home and
    17        Health Department, so, presumably, it is sanctioned by the
    18        government in some form or other.
    19
    20   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  It is a Report of a Working Party to the
         Chief Medical Officer for Scotland.  Do you, in fact, have
    22        a complete copy of The Scottish Diet?
    23
    24   MR. MORRIS:  This is all we have.  We were given this by
    25        Professor Crawford.  It clearly has over 30 pages.
    26
    27   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  See if you can get hold of the complete
    28        report.  Quite apart from anything else, it will have the
    29        identity of the members of the Working Party in it,
    30        presumably.
    31
    32   MR. MORRIS:  Yes.
    33
    34   MR. RAMPTON:  My Lord, I do not know whether it would be
    35        convenient, save me coming back to it in re-examination,
    36        that now we have it open we just read the whole of this
    37        page.
    38
    39   MR. MORRIS:  I do not want to read the whole page because
    40        I want to read extracts from a number of documents which
         will be exhaustive.
    42
    43   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Anyway, the point of actually putting this
    44        is for the extract from or summary of the World Health
    45        Organisation report, Mr. Morris, is it?
    46
    47   MR. MORRIS:  Yes, that is the main reason.
    48
    49   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Rather than anything which the Working Party
    50        itself said? 
    51 
    52   MR. MORRIS:  I was not concentrating on that, but Mr. Rampton 
    53        is correct to say there are other interesting points in
    54        this report.  If we can get the full report that would be
    55        helpful.  But I notice down the page, for example, in the
    56        paragraph that starts, "A recent collation of over 200
    57        case-control studies strongly suggests ...."
    58
    59   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Dr. Arnott has shown more willingness to
    60        accept that they may have a protective effect and that