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1 was an examined course which I successfully completed.
2 I have also researched and written on the subject of
3 children's diets, specifically for the school meals
4 campaign, and I am co-author of two reports, School Meals
5 Fact Sheet, which was jointly published by the Food
6 Commission, and the Child Poverty Action Group in September
7 1991. And also I was one of the authors of the Nutritional
8 Case for School Meals published by the School Meals
9 campaign in June 1992.
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11 Q. Can you just say a little bit about what the school meals
12 campaign is?
13 A. The School Meals Campaign is an alliance of
14 organisations who came together to defend and extend school
15 meals provision in this country. School meals have been
16 recognised as contributing to children's diets. There has
17 been concern about policies which have led to cuts in
18 school meals provision and policies, which have led to a
19 lowering of nutritional standards for school meals. My
20 work in this area has focused on children's diet and the
21 role that school meals can play in relation to improving
22 children's diets.
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24 Q. Just looking at paragraph 1 of your statement that you have
25 looked at food advertising aimed at children, do you want
26 to give a bit of an explanation, just generally, of what
27 you have looked at and what you have found?
28 A. I have been involved in a number of monitoring surveys
29 looking at the nature and extent of food advertising to
30 children. Perhaps it would be appropriate to refer the
31 court to the references on this?
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33 Q. Right. If you tell us what you want the court to look at?
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35 MR. JUSTICE BELL: As you refer to a document, if you can
36 identify it so that everyone can find it if we have it.
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38 MS. STEEL: I saw what you picked up. I was wondering, are you
39 going to refer to the Food Commission surveys?
40 A. Yes, is that -----
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42 Q. No, that is fine. For some reason, although they are
43 listed as references at the back of Ms. Dibb's statement,
44 they were put in the Plaintiffs' section B, "Sue Dibb's
45 references not relied on". I am not sure why they went in
46 there.
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48 MR. JUSTICE BELL: I do not mind where it is as long as you can
49 identify the volume, so as a document is referred to I can
50 get it out and look at it.
51 A. This is section B, Nos. 5 and 6.
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53 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Where do I find that?
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55 MS. STEEL: The pale green references for Sue Dibb. Do you want
56 to explain what you found when you looked at the
57 advertising aimed at children; just a general background
58 picture of what you found really?
59 A. This survey monitored advertising on children's
60 television between 4.00 p.m. and ten past five in the
