Nonprofit
Sugar Research Foundation (founded 1943; predecessor of the Sugar Association)
Documented money flows
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- AGR-2.1: On 13 July 1965 the Sugar Research Foundation’s executive committee approved Project 226, a literature review of carbohydrates and cholesterol metabolism, and the foundation paid the Harvard authors D. Mark Hegsted and Robert McGandy $6,500 for it.
- AGR-2.2: According to Kearns et al. (2016), the 1967 New England Journal of Medicine review by McGandy, Hegsted and Stare disclosed other funding of the authors' experimental research and did not mention the Sugar Research Foundation's funding or participation.
- AGR-2.3: The Sugar Research Foundation’s research director, John Hickson, told Hegsted on 30 July 1965 that he would be disappointed if the sucrose aspect were “drowned out in a cascade of review and general interpretation,” and on 2 November 1966 that the draft was “quite what we had in mind.”
- AGR-2.4: Kearns, Schmidt and Glantz state that there is no direct evidence that the sugar industry wrote or changed the manuscript of the 1967 review and that the evidence the industry shaped its conclusions is circumstantial.
- AGR-2.5: In September 2016 the Sugar Association acknowledged that the Sugar Research Foundation “should have exercised greater transparency in all of its research activities” and said funding-disclosure standards were not then the norm they are today.
- AGR-2.7: In 1977 the International Sugar Research Foundation, successor to the Sugar Research Foundation, submitted a brief to the Select Committee stating that the first edition of Dietary Goals was “misleading” and “not based on scientific evidence.”
- AGR-2.8: Kearns, Glantz and Schmidt reported in 2015 that 78 percent of the sugar industry’s submission was incorporated into the National Institute of Dental Research’s call for research applications for the National Caries Program, a program on tooth decay.
- AGR-2.15: The documents do not establish whether the Sugar Research Foundation's funding changed the conclusions of the 1967 review.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 584 12 September 2016 (online); 1 November 2016 (print). Kearns CE, Schmidt LA, Glantz SA; JAMA Internal Medicine 176(11):1680-1685: Sugar Industry and Coronary Heart Disease Research: A Historical Analysis of Internal Industry Documents
- Exhibit 587 12 September 2016. STAT (Melissa Bailey): Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research
- Exhibit 591 1977. International Sugar Research Foundation, in Dietary Goals for the United States: Supplemental Views: Sucrose and Health: A Brief Submitted by the International Sugar Research Foundation to the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs
- Exhibit 596 10 March 2015. Kearns CE, Glantz SA, Schmidt LA; PLoS Medicine 12(3):e1001798: Sugar industry influence on the scientific agenda of the National Institute of Dental Research's 1971 National Caries Program: a historical analysis of internal documents