U.S. dietary guidelines: shaped by experts or industry interests?
According to a recent study, almost half of the experts who create federal dietary guidelines had questionable financial relationships to large food and medicine companies. This raises concerns about possible undue corporate influence over important nutrition policy. The U.S. Right to Know analysis uncovered nine of twenty appointed experts crafting the nation’s 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans recently took money from infant formula brands, pharmaceutical firms, trade groups, and more. One received a six-figure research grant from a top insulin manufacturer specifically to study diabetes and diet. Such corporate relationships inevitably raise suspicions of unconscious bias among advisers analyzing policy
December 15, 2023