The Lacuna Project

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

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

International body

World Health Organization

Documented money flows

Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity

  • 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.

Exhibits naming this entity

  • Exhibit 592 2003. World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (WHO Technical Report Series 916)
  • Exhibit 593 23 April 2003. Associated Press, via CBS News: Sugar Lobbyists Sour On Study
  • Exhibit 594 21 April 2003. Center for Science in the Public Interest: Big sugar's "thuggish" tactics come under fire
  • Exhibit 595 2003. Sarah Boseley (reprint of Guardian report of 21 April 2003), International Journal of Health Services 33(4):831-833: Political context of the World Health Organization: sugar industry threatens to scupper the WHO