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Issued in mid-August by Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal (D-N.Y.) and the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the analysis characterizes the School of Public Health's Nutrition Department as "riddled with corporate influence," noting that its benefactors include the Kellogg Co., Gerber Products, Coca-Cola, Oscar Mayer & Co., and the Amstar Corp...
Specifically the report criticizes the corporate connections of Dr. Fredrick J. Stare, the professor of nutrition who chaired the department from its birth in 1942 until last June, and Jean Mayer, professor of nutrition until his departure this summer to become president of Tufts University in Medford...
Thus while ex-professor Jean Mayer also has ties to the food industry, including board directorships on Monsanto and Miles Laboratories, which make food flavorings and other additives--he is criticized less forcefully than Stare in the study for lending his "prestige" to food and chemical companies. Indeed Mayer is praised for "repeatedly [voicing] his concern over food industry advertising and the quality of the American diet...
...Mayer has refused to comment on the Rosenthal-CSPI report...
After examining the corporate ties and nutritional writings of academics in several universities, including Stare and Mayer, the authors of the Rosenthal-CSPI study suggest that the "moonlighting for industry" of academics like Stare "impinges on professors' commitment to their students and their allegiance to professional objectivity. The report continues...