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Exhibit 596

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

Exhibit 596 · Research article

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

Seventy-eight percent of the sugar industry submission was incorporated into the NIDR's call for research applications.

Historical analysis of cane and beet sugar industry documents, 1959-1971, on the NIDR's National Caries Program. This is the 2015 PLoS Medicine paper; it concerns tooth decay, not coronary heart disease.

Source
Kearns CE, Glantz SA, Schmidt LA; PLoS Medicine 12(3):e1001798
Date
10 March 2015
Quoted from
Abstract, Methods and Findings
Grade
Peer-reviewed
Document
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001798
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Peer-reviewed 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.