Organization

The Sugar Association

Washington trade association of the U.S. sugar industry.

3 links, 0 backed by primary records

The debate

What it disputes

Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research (2016) 12 Sep 2016
Generally speaking, it is not only unfortunate but a disservice that industry-funded research is branded as tainted.1
The statement also acknowledges that the foundation should have been more transparent; it does not take issue with the documents themselves.

Each side is quoted in its own words. Whether a finding holds is not decided here.

Connections 3

Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research (2016) 12 Sep 2016 According to The Sugar Association Self-published 1
The statement also acknowledges that the foundation should have been more transparent; it does not take issue with the documents themselves.

Timeline 1 date

Proof 2 sources

The Sugar Association statement on the Kearns JAMA study, The Sugar Association (statement on its website), 12 Sep 2016. Self-published
Generally speaking, it is not only unfortunate but a disservice that industry-funded research is branded as tainted.
We acknowledge that the Sugar Research Foundation should have exercised greater transparency in all of its research activities, however, when the studies in question were published funding disclosures and transparency standards were not the norm they are today.
Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents (JAMA Internal Medicine 176(11)), Kearns, Schmidt and Glantz, JAMA Internal Medicine (author manuscript via PubMed Central), Nov 2016. Scholarship & press
The Sugar Association evolved from the Sugar Research Foundation (SRF), founded in 1943.
the sucrose industry’s Washington, DC–based trade association,

Page history 1 change