Exhibit 548

Conflicts of interest for members of the US 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Exhibit 548 · Peer-reviewed article

Conflicts of interest for members of the US 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee

Our results show that nineteen of the twenty DGAC members (95 %) had at least one tie to an industry actor.

Counts 720 instances of ties (research funding 287; board 155; speaker/honoraria 112; consultant 105; award 35; employee 20; editor 6) for the 20 members, one count per relationship-year, from publications and CVs. Member names anonymised at the journal's request. Authors state the method can over- and under-count and that mapping ties to recommendations was out of scope. Funded by The Nutrition Coalition; co-author Nina Teicholz is affiliated with it and wrote the 2015 BMJ article.

Source: Mialon, Serodio, Crosbie, Teicholz, Naik, Carriedo, Public Health Nutrition 27(1):e69
Date: 21 March 2022
Quoted from: Discussion, first sentence
Grade: Peer-reviewed
Document: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10966930/
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: PMC page lists a 2024 collection date; journal publication 21 March 2022 (doi 10.1017/S1368980022000672).

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Finding AGR-4.7: Peer-reviewed 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.
Finding AGR-4.14: Open question 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.