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Exhibit 587

Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research

Exhibit 587 · Journalism

Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research

We acknowledge that the Sugar Research Foundation should have exercised greater transparency in all of its research activities

Reports the Kearns paper and the Sugar Association's statement in response, which acknowledged that the SRF 'should have exercised greater transparency' and said it was 'challenging for us to comment on events that allegedly occurred 60 years ago, and on documents we have never seen'. Also quotes Glantz that the reviews 'helped shift the emphasis of the discussion away from sugar onto fat' and Nestle calling the findings a 'smoking gun'.

Source
STAT (Melissa Bailey)
Date
12 September 2016
Quoted from
Paragraph quoting the trade group (statement of 12 September 2016)
Grade
Reported
Document
https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/12/sugar-industry-harvard-research/
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding AGR-2.5
Reported 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.