1Centre of Research in Medical Pharmacology,University of Insubria,Varese,Italy.
2Charles Perkins Centre and School of Pharmacy,Faculty of Medicine and Health,The University of Sydney,Camperdown,NSW 2006,Australia.
Public Health Nutr. 2018 Dec;21(18):3422-3430. doi: 10.1017/S1368980018002100. Epub 2018 Aug 30.
To identify scientific publications that result from food industry-funded projects on human health and to characterize their research topics to assess the potential for bias in the research agenda.
Cross-sectional analysis.Setting/SubjectsFood industry-supported projects related to human health were identified from food company websites; publications resulting from the food industry-sponsored projects were identified through a PubMed search.
Of ten companies analysed, only two (Coca-Cola and the Mars Center for Cocoa Health Science) provided a list of research projects with sufficient detail for analysis. Among the 204 publications resulting from thirty-seven disclosed research projects, the most common topic was physical activity (40·7 %), while highly processed foods were analysed in 10·8 % of the publications. Twenty-two publications (10·8 %) focused on research integrity or research methods.
Publications resulting from Coca-Cola- and Mars-sponsored research appear to skew the evidence towards solutions that favour industry interests by focusing on food components that can be manipulated and marketed by food companies. These food industry-funded publications can also distract from nutrition as a health issue by diverting public and policy attention to physical activity. Shaping the debate around scientific methods can be another strategy that corporations use for their benefit to raise doubts about the methods used in non-industry sponsored research.
识别食品行业资助的人类健康项目的科学出版物，并对其研究主题进行特征描述，以评估研究议程中存在偏见的可能性。
横断面分析。
设置/对象：从食品公司网站中确定与人类健康相关的食品行业支持项目；通过 PubMed 搜索确定食品行业资助项目产生的出版物。
在分析的十家公司中，只有两家（可口可乐和玛氏可可健康科学中心）提供了足够详细的研究项目清单进行分析。在 37 个披露的研究项目产生的 204 篇出版物中，最常见的主题是体育活动（40.7%），而在 10.8%的出版物中分析了高度加工食品。22 篇出版物（10.8%）专注于研究诚信或研究方法。
可口可乐和玛氏赞助的研究产生的出版物似乎通过关注可以被食品公司操纵和营销的食品成分，偏向于有利于行业利益的解决方案，从而扭曲了证据。这些由食品行业资助的出版物还可以通过将公众和政策注意力转移到体育活动上，从而将营养作为一个健康问题转移注意力。围绕科学方法展开辩论可能是另一种策略，公司可以利用这种策略为自己谋利，对非行业赞助研究中使用的方法提出质疑。
