The Lacuna Project

lacuna (n.) a gap in a record where something should be

Independent research. Not affiliated with any government, agency, or company.

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The Nutrition Coalition

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-4.14: 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