And it published a position paper that gave sugar a clean bill of health. The prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association published a study concluding that salt doesn't raise blood pressure. And one of the co-authors of its paper exonerating sugar was a scientific advisor to the Canadian Sugar Institute. The study absolving salt was financed by the Campbell Institute for Research and Technology.
Examples are legion.
The objective-sounding International Life Sciences Institute and the International Food Information Council are funded by big food companies. To counteract industry's hidden influence, CSPI has created the Integrity in Science project, which will expose conflicts of interest and encourage journalists to disclose industry funding of research and organizations. Our goal is to pry industry's thumb off the scale by letting consumers, reporters, and policy-makers know about potential biases.