Month: October 2022

Study: IFIC misleads the public about diet, health, ultra-processed food

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Widely cited group IFIC “promotes food and beverage company interests and undermines the accurate dissemination of scientific evidence related to diet and health.”

IFIC explainer: How Big Food defends ultra-processed foods, pesticides, artificial sweeteners

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The International Food Information Council (IFIC), a trade group funded by large food and pesticide companies, misleads the public about diet and health, according to documents obtained by U.S. Right to Know. IFIC is widely cited in the media as a source on issues related to food and health. IFIC and its nonprofit foundation spend IFIC explainer: How Big Food defends ultra-processed foods, pesticides, artificial sweeteners

Preprint: COVID-19 shows ‘fingerprint’ of laboratory engineering

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COVID-19’s genome shows signs consistent with genetic manipulation, according to a new preprint.

Senate HELP Committee Republicans: ‘Pandemic was, more likely than not, a research-related incident’

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New report summarizes publicly available evidence and concludes that epidemiology of the early pandemic starkly differs from how other airborne epidemics first emerged…

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics documents

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This page contains documents about the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that U.S. Right to Know obtained through public records requests. Below are documents we received in PDF format. We used these documents to prepare our study in Public Health Nutrition, titled The corporate capture of the nutrition profession in the USA: the case of Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics documents

Study: Largest nutritionists’ group captured by food, pharma and agribusiness companies

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The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics accepted millions of dollars from food, pharmaceutical and agribusiness companies and invested in ultra-processed food companies, according to a new study in Public Health Nutrition.

Inspector general closed lab leak theory probe 21 months ago

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The news that the chief American collaborator of the Wuhan Institute of Virology received renewed funding from the National Institutes of Health sparked indignation this week. Now, new documents may shed light on why NIH grantmakers are not exerting more caution. The watchdog that ensures the integrity of federal health programs closed a brief probe Inspector general closed lab leak theory probe 21 months ago