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Letter: For the record

Published 12 August 2015

• The A2 Milk Company has asked us to clarify that it doesn’t promote A2 milk as dealing with non-communicable diseases (25 July, p 33). The company states that A2 Milk “is marketed for the benefit of people who may experience digestive discomfort with milk”.

• It was X-rays that were an increasingly popular treatment for cancer, eczema and even hair removal in the 1930s; and Aloe vera was used to soothe skin damaged by overexposure to them (18 July, p 40).

Issue no. 3034 published 15 August 2015

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