Day 092 - 27 Feb 95 - Page 24
1 A. No, that is wrong.
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3 Q. That is wrong, is it?
4 A. That is correct. You can pick up a lot of vegetables
5 that have more pesticides, residues.
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7 Q. That was herbicides, in particular?
8 A. Oh, herbicides.
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10 Q. Are you aware -----
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12 MR. JUSTICE BELL: Wait a minute. Does that make any
13 difference, that it is herbicides, not just pesticides?
14 A. Yes, there is a big difference.
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16 Q. Sorry?
17 A. Yes, there is a difference.
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19 MS. STEEL: So would you accept it was true for herbicides?
20 A. I do not know. If that is what they concluded, I have
21 to take it as is.
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23 Q. Are you aware of research into the cancer risks due to
24 pesticide contamination carried out by the National
25 Research Council?
26 A. I do not know. I have read a lot of research on that
27 issue. In everything that I have found out, it does not
28 support that. I have seen research that is fairly
29 extensive which proves that pesticides are the No. 1
30 concerns, if we take specifically for the United States, it
31 is the No. 1 concern of consumers.
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33 Now, when that was compared with the scientific data, it
34 was tenth, was ranked tenth, as one of the risk. The risks
35 of pesticides is very, very small. There is a higher risk
36 of drinking coffee than it is to eat meat that has some
37 pesticide residues.
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39 Q. So ---
40 A. Just to put it in perspective.
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42 Q. -- meat was tenth on the list, was it?
43 A. No, no, risk -- the risk was tenth in foods.
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45 Q. Foods in general?
46 A. Yes.
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48 Q. Within foods, what, you say coffee was the first?
49 A. No, I was comparing the risk of cancer or the risk of
50 any type of illness.
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52 Q. I believe that the National Research Council rank tomatoes
53 as the greatest risk of cancer from pesticides?
54 A. I do not know which one that could be.
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56 Q. You do not know about that?
57 A. No.
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59 Q. And that they rank beef as the second greatest risk of
60 cancer from pesticide contamination?
