Adv. Mr. A. Amorai: ….I just want you to confirm to me that the scientific epidemiological literature states and claims that there is no such thing as a permissible threshold, that any threshold, any regulation on this matter is a compromise. That's what I ask you to approve of me. Why are you doing this?
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: I don't, I am, because I think your motivation is to go to the Torah that says that if there is a threshold of 100 for a certain substance then at 90 you will get me and 80 you will get me, but you will claim that even if there is only 5 exposures, it can already be dangerous. This is not true professionally in a total way.
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The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: No, so I'm again, we, just to straighten out, the threshold is set based on certain truths and every threshold has safety zones around it. You have to be careful not to take the threshold theory and erase it in the sense that you are around the threshold allowing yourself a 100% deviation to the right and 100% to the left. Therefore, accuracy has been scientifically determined and ways to argue whether the accuracy has 5% or the accuracy has 10% But it's true that the threshold is an artificial number. Still, it is artificial above an index and a criterion that has logic and has a reason, it is not for good reason, it is not for nothing that it was determined
(In detail, pp. 1850-1851).
- Rennert was asked to express his opinion regarding the statements made by a representative of the Public Trust according to which BAZAN is misleading the public with the emissions figures, his answer:
The witness, Prof. Gad Rennert: My opinion is that I am relying on data from the Ministry of the Environment, not data that Bazan gave. If the Ministry of the Environment has a problem with Bazan, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of the Environment will sit down and align with Bazan. I see from the environmental data how many emissions there are, at what level and how many deviations there are. And again, we forget the basics. When you go beyond Sox and Knox, who are not related to cancer, you won't convince me that an exception also caused cancer.