Conflict of interest (Part 2): Arguments against industry funding

One of the most prominent critics of industry-funded food-related research is Marion Nestle, author of the book Food Politics and a blog with the same name. I was interested to find that Marion’s campaign against industry funding originated from her experiences with the industry during the early part of her career.

In this interview, Marion revealed that she used to serve as a Senior Nutrition Policy Advisor to the Office of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention for the US government, where her primary role was to edit the 1988 Surgeon General’s Report on Nutrition and Health. When asked what the experience was like, she recalled,