Our Investigations

U.S. Right to Know is a nonprofit investigative public health research and journalism group working globally to expose corporate wrongdoing and government failures that threaten our health, environment and food system. Since 2015, we have obtained, posted and reported on thousands of industry and government documents, including many acquired through judicial enforcement of open records laws.

Our investigations into the pesticide and ultra-processed food industries have been reported on worldwide, leading tothreeNew York Timesexposés; more than adozen articlesin the BMJ, one of the world’s leading medical journals; and16 co-authoredpeer-reviewed public health journal articles. Our team has also reported extensively on the origins of Covid-19 and high-risk virological research.

Findings of the U.S. Right to Know investigation by topic:

Coca-Cola Company > Glyphosate > Chemical Fact Sheets and Document Pages > Academics and Universities > Government Agencies > Industry PR and Front Groups > Disney Funded Food Research > Synthetic Biology > Reporters and Media > Reports > Right to Know Review Newsletter > FOIA and Disclosure > Biohazards and SARS-CoV-2

Coca-Cola Company

USRTK news releases

Coke’s Influence at U.S. Centers for Disease Control

Chemical Fact Sheets and Document Pages

Documents and trial updates

Glyphosate Reporting

Academics and Universities Linked to Corporations

Our investigation has uncovered secret financial arrangements and close collaborations between corporations, their PR firms and supposedly “independent” academics who promote corporate interests. These revelations were first covered in a front-page story in The New York Times by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Eric Lipton.

Kevin Folta, University of Florida

Bruce Chassy, University of Illinois

Jon Entine, Genetic Literacy Project, former visiting fellow UC Davis

Cornell Alliance for Science & Gates Foundation

Trevor Butterworth, Sense About Science USA, Cornell Alliance for Science

Henry I. Miller, formerly Hoover Institution

Keith Kloor, New York University

Drew Kershen,University of Oklahoma College of Law

Calestous Juma, Harvard University

Alison Van Eenenaam, UC Davis

James Hill & John Peters, University of Colorado, Denver

Richard Goodman, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Peter Phillips, University of Saskatchewan

Stuart Smyth, University of Saskatchewan

David Shaw, Mississippi State University

Steven N. Blair, University of South Carolina

Industry PR & Front Groups

U.S. Right to Know is tracking groups that collaborate with the agrichemical and food industries, often in covert ways, to promote industry products and political agendas.

Fact sheets about writers and PR surrogates the agrichemical industry relies on to promote industry spin about science and regulations.

American Council on Scienceand Health (ACSH)

GMO Answers

International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI)

Ketchum PR

Monsanto’s PR partners

Government Agencies

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Disney Corporate Funded Food Research

Synthetic Biology / Gene Editing

Journalists and Media

Keith Kloor

Tamar Haspel (Washington Post)

Kate Kelland (Reuters)

Jennifer Kahn (UC Berkeley, New York Times)

Amy Harmon (New York Times)

Reports

Right to Know Review Newsletter

On Freedom of Information and Disclosure

USRTK FOIA page: Defending our right to know

Freedom of the Press Foundation: How corporations suppress disclosure of public records about themselves

The Hill: How Freedom Falls: Broken FOIA Far From Healing as US Agencies Cheat Public

Los Angeles Times: In Science, Follow the Money – If You Can

New York Times: Scientists, Give Up Your Emails

Nature Biotechnology: Standing Up for Transparency

Ralph Nader: Monsanto and its Promoters vs. Freedom of Information

SARS-CoV-2 and Biohazards Investigation

In 2020, U.S. Right to Know launched a biohazards investigation into the origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, and to research accidents, leaks and other mishaps at laboratories where pathogens of pandemic potential are stored and modified, and the health risks of gain-of-function (GOF) research. For more information.

U.S. Right to Know is a nonprofit organization that investigates the risks associated with the corporate food system, and the food industry’s practices and influence on public policy. We promote the free market principle of transparency iscrucial to building a better, healthier food system.

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