Health watchdog demands greater transparency on US dietary guidelines amid conflict of interest fears

12 May 2023 — The US Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) is urging the federal cabinet agencies charged with publishing the Dietary Guidelines Advisory (DGA) to increase transparency between individual committee members and their possible ties to the food and pharmaceutical industries. CSPI suspects that the agencies are hiding potential financial conflicts of interest from the public. 

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a list last month naming relationships, activities and interests that are interfering with the independence of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee’s (DGAC) scientific review.