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International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a food industry lobby group

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The International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a corporate-funded nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, with affiliated chapters around the world. ILSI describes itself as a group that conducts “science for the public good” and “improves human health and well-being and safeguards the environment.” However, investigations by academics, journalists and public interest researchers show that International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) is a food industry lobby group

Disney Tried to Suppress Food Study it Funded

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Corporations may want to think twice about hiring industry-friendly professors to publish studies about their products – as Disney recently realized, but too late. As Sheila Kaplan first reported in STAT News, new emails obtained by U.S. Right to Know reveal that Disney paid friendly professors to study children’s food at its parks, then tried Disney Tried to Suppress Food Study it Funded