The Lacuna Project

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2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • AGR-4.7: A peer-reviewed analysis found that 19 of the 20 members of the 2020 advisory committee (95 percent) had at least one tie to an industry actor, counting 720 relationship-year instances, most of them research funding and board seats. The Nutrition Coalition funded the study, and Teicholz is a co-author.
  • 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-4.14: No document in the record shows an advisory-committee member's industry tie producing a specific recommendation. The authors of the 2020 committee study state that mapping ties to recommendations was outside their scope.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 548 21 March 2022. Mialon, Serodio, Crosbie, Teicholz, Naik, Carriedo, Public Health Nutrition 27(1):e69: Conflicts of interest for members of the US 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
  • Exhibit 549 July 2020. 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee: Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
  • Exhibit 550 May 2019. Eve Stoody, Designated Federal Officer, 2020 DGAC (USDA CNPP): Responding to the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Study on the Process to Update the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
  • Exhibit 934 1 March 2019. USDA Office of Ethics: Ethics Review of Appointees to the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (USDA Office of Ethics statement)
  • Exhibit 935 Archived 18 December 2020 (page undated). U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (dietaryguidelines.gov): Dietary Guidelines for Americans: Most Popular Questions (2020 Advisory Committee process and ethics review)