I was curious to know who edited and funded the
European Journal of Nutrition's supplements; they
publish a lot of them. The numbering is reverse-chronological and my own; the journal does not number them.
Supplement 4: "
Supplement on Sugar Consumption Controversy". Editor,
James M. Rippe. If you click through to an individual article, you read that "This article belongs to a Supplement sponsored by Rippe Health.".
Rippe Health is in turn sponsored by producers of sugary foods, among others, like the
Corn Refiners Association (sic).[3] The lead author of the second paper is also
James M. Rippe, the founder and director of Rippe Health.[4][5] Another paper is written by
John Sievenpiper and his postdoc. Dr. Sievenpiper has received media attention for the support he has received from the sugar industry.[6] The supplement has been repeatedly cited in the
Sugar article.
2016
Supplement 5: "Nutrient reference value: non-communicable disease endpoints—a conference report" Edited by James C. Griffiths again, see Supplement 1. A single article.
Supplement 8: No name and no editor given, contains only one article, called
Exploring the benefits and challenges of establishing a DRI-like process for bioactives "This is the fourth CRN-International conference report. Previous conference reports were published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, European Journal of Nutrition, and European Journal of Nutrition, respectively."
Supplement 10: "
Food ingredients promoting oral health" (unnamed in the table of contents). Editor: Stefan Zimmer, Department of Operative and Preventive Dentistry,
Witten/Herdecke University,
Witten, Germany (there are lots of Stefan Zimmers, it's a common name). The supplement directs correspondance to
ILSI Europe,
website. The Wikipedia article describes ILSI as "a member organization whose members are primarily food and beverage, agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies". I clicked through, and in the article COIs it would appear that all the authors publishing papers in this supplement "received a honorarium from ILSI Europe for their participation in this publication and reimbursement of their travel and accommodation costs for attending the related meetings", with the exception of Stefan Zimmer, who only published a foreword.
Supplement 12:
No supplement names. All correspondance directed to the ILSI again. From a conference, [
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-009-0071-5 “Functional Foods in Europe––International Developments in Science and Health Claims”, Portomaso, Malta, 2007, May 9-11, according to the foreword. In all but one of the subsequent listed articles, the acknowledgements section begins "This article was commissioned by the Functional Foods Task Force of the European branch of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI Europe)". In the next section, the authors declare no conflicts of interest. The exception was comissioned in the same way, but has the COI statement: "Dr J Howlett and Dr N Binns are consultants who receive financial remuneration for advising, on an ad hoc basis, food ingredient manufacturers, some of whose products fall within the scope of issues presented at the Symposium and discussed in the publication. They received financial remuneration from ILSI Europe for acting as rapporteurs for the Symposium described in the publication.".
2008
Supplement 13: On nutrition and children's cognition. COI info apparently paywalled. No supplement title and no editor listed, although possibly the intro might have been written by the editors.
Supplement 14: A supplement on vitamins and cancer. Ditto.
Supplement 15: European micronutrient recommendations.
2007
Supplement 16: Nutrient profiling
Supplement 17: Single-article supplement: "The importance of β-carotene as a source of vitamin A with special regard to pregnant and breastfeeding women"
2006
Supplement 18: Single-article supplement: "Progress in the science of probiotics: from cellular microbiology and applied immunology to clinical nutrition"
2005
Supplement 19: "PASSCLAIM, Process for the Assessment of Scientific Support for Claims on Foods"
2004
Supplement 20: PASSCLAIM again
Supplement 21: Fats and oils and disease
2003
Supplement 22: PASSCLAIM again
2002
Supplement 23: Probiotics and intestinal microflora
That seems to be the lot. As far as I can tell, all the post-2012 content
is CC-BY. The sections of the articles in which the authors declare their conflicts of interest often run over a hundred words, and many end with the phrase "None of the authors declares any conflict of interest in providing their solely scientific opinion for this review".
I was curious to know who edited and funded the
European Journal of Nutrition's supplements; they
publish a lot of them. The numbering is reverse-chronological and my own; the journal does not number them.
Supplement 4: "
Supplement on Sugar Consumption Controversy". Editor,
James M. Rippe. If you click through to an individual article, you read that "This article belongs to a Supplement sponsored by Rippe Health.".
Rippe Health is in turn sponsored by producers of sugary foods, among others, like the
Corn Refiners Association (sic).[3] The lead author of the second paper is also
James M. Rippe, the founder and director of Rippe Health.[4][5] Another paper is written by
John Sievenpiper and his postdoc. Dr. Sievenpiper has received media attention for the support he has received from the sugar industry.[6] The supplement has been repeatedly cited in the
Sugar article.
2016
Supplement 5: "Nutrient reference value: non-communicable disease endpoints—a conference report" Edited by James C. Griffiths again, see Supplement 1. A single article.
Supplement 8: No name and no editor given, contains only one article, called
Exploring the benefits and challenges of establishing a DRI-like process for bioactives "This is the fourth CRN-International conference report. Previous conference reports were published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, European Journal of Nutrition, and European Journal of Nutrition, respectively."
Supplement 10: "
Food ingredients promoting oral health" (unnamed in the table of contents). Editor: Stefan Zimmer, Department of Operative and Preventive Dentistry,
Witten/Herdecke University,
Witten, Germany (there are lots of Stefan Zimmers, it's a common name). The supplement directs correspondance to
ILSI Europe,
website. The Wikipedia article describes ILSI as "a member organization whose members are primarily food and beverage, agricultural, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies". I clicked through, and in the article COIs it would appear that all the authors publishing papers in this supplement "received a honorarium from ILSI Europe for their participation in this publication and reimbursement of their travel and accommodation costs for attending the related meetings", with the exception of Stefan Zimmer, who only published a foreword.
Supplement 12:
No supplement names. All correspondance directed to the ILSI again. From a conference, [
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00394-009-0071-5 “Functional Foods in Europe––International Developments in Science and Health Claims”, Portomaso, Malta, 2007, May 9-11, according to the foreword. In all but one of the subsequent listed articles, the acknowledgements section begins "This article was commissioned by the Functional Foods Task Force of the European branch of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI Europe)". In the next section, the authors declare no conflicts of interest. The exception was comissioned in the same way, but has the COI statement: "Dr J Howlett and Dr N Binns are consultants who receive financial remuneration for advising, on an ad hoc basis, food ingredient manufacturers, some of whose products fall within the scope of issues presented at the Symposium and discussed in the publication. They received financial remuneration from ILSI Europe for acting as rapporteurs for the Symposium described in the publication.".
2008
Supplement 13: On nutrition and children's cognition. COI info apparently paywalled. No supplement title and no editor listed, although possibly the intro might have been written by the editors.
Supplement 14: A supplement on vitamins and cancer. Ditto.
Supplement 15: European micronutrient recommendations.
2007
Supplement 16: Nutrient profiling
Supplement 17: Single-article supplement: "The importance of β-carotene as a source of vitamin A with special regard to pregnant and breastfeeding women"
2006
Supplement 18: Single-article supplement: "Progress in the science of probiotics: from cellular microbiology and applied immunology to clinical nutrition"
2005
Supplement 19: "PASSCLAIM, Process for the Assessment of Scientific Support for Claims on Foods"
2004
Supplement 20: PASSCLAIM again
Supplement 21: Fats and oils and disease
2003
Supplement 22: PASSCLAIM again
2002
Supplement 23: Probiotics and intestinal microflora
That seems to be the lot. As far as I can tell, all the post-2012 content
is CC-BY. The sections of the articles in which the authors declare their conflicts of interest often run over a hundred words, and many end with the phrase "None of the authors declares any conflict of interest in providing their solely scientific opinion for this review".