The Center for Science in the Public Interest reports that "The Journal of the American College of Nutrition's June supplement on sodium intake and human health failed to reveal that its editor and several authors had long-standing ties to the food industry. Then, in violation of the National Library of Medicine's rules, the editors allowed MEDLINE to index the supplement."
A CSPI news release also states: "In a letter to JACN, CSPI demanded that the next issue contain a formal apology to readers, full conflict-of-interest disclosure information for all authors and a prominent notice that the supplement did not undergo peer review. In a separate letter to the National Library of Medicine, CSPI requested that the abstracts be withdrawn from MEDLINE since the journal failed to follow NLM policy. The agency recently ruled that privately-sponsored journal supplements must contain conflict-of-interest disclosures for all authors and editors before they can be indexed in the government-funded database."
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