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Center for Science in the Public Interest

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AGR-2.9: The 2003 WHO/FAO report on diet and chronic disease set a population goal of under 10 percent of energy from free sugars and described that goal as controversial. In March and April 2003, according to AP, CSPI and the Guardian, the Sugar Association's president wrote to WHO that the association would ask Congress to challenge U.S. funding, a food-industry coalition asked HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to intervene on 20 March, and Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and John Breaux (D-LA) made a further request to Thompson on 28 March. AP also reports that the senators wrote Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman.
AGR-4.8: For the 2020 committee the USDA ethics official found no entry on any of the 20 members' OGE Form 450 that would prevent appointment. For the same cycle HHS and USDA declined NASEM's recommendations for an external third-party screener (cost and time) and a public list of provisional appointees (privacy). A coalition letter states that OGE Form 450 is exempt from public disclosure.
AGR-4.11: The 2025 advisory committee disclosed its members' interests collectively, on voluntary ICMJE forms covering the prior 12 months, and stated: "Because its work is collective, the Committee provided its disclosures collectively rather than individually." A letter signed by CSPI and other organizations on 27 January 2023 had asked for individual disclosure.

Exhibit 553 27 January 2023. Center for Science in the Public Interest and 12 other organizations: Letter to HHS urging public disclosure of 2025 DGAC members' financial conflicts of interest
Exhibit 594 21 April 2003. Center for Science in the Public Interest: Big sugar's "thuggish" tactics come under fire