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Exhibit 600

Evaluating Coca-Cola's attempts to influence public health 'in their own words': analysis of Coca-Cola emails with public health academics leading the Global Energy Balance Network

Exhibit 600 ยท Research article

Evaluating Coca-Cola's attempts to influence public health 'in their own words': analysis of Coca-Cola emails with public health academics leading the Global Energy Balance Network

Coca-Cola sought to obscure its relationship with researchers, minimise the public perception of its role and use these researchers to promote industry-friendly messaging.

Thematic content analysis of 18,036 pages of Coca-Cola emails with academics at West Virginia University and the University of Colorado, obtained through state open-records requests by U.S. Right to Know in 2015-2016. Co-author Ruskin works for the group that obtained the emails.

Source
Serodio P, Ruskin G, McKee M, Stuckler D; Public Health Nutrition 23(14):2647-2653
Date
3 August 2020 (online)
Quoted from
Abstract, Conclusions
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1368980020002098
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Finding AGR-2.11
Peer-reviewed A peer-reviewed analysis of 18,036 pages of Coca-Cola emails with university researchers concluded that Coca-Cola sought to obscure its relationship with the researchers, minimize the public perception of its role and use the researchers to promote industry-friendly messaging.