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Tobacco Industry Documents:
3189 new documents added
Drug Industry Documents:
A new set of documents from Paxil litigation demonstrate the ghostwriting of a medical article for a core journal. Includes communication between Sally Laden of the now-shuttered medical communications company, Scientific Therapeutics Information, Inc, (STI), SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, and Charles Nemeroff (as well as other academics/physicians) in the course of crafting an article for GSK's study 352 (A Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Comparison of Imipramine and Paroxetine in the Treatment of Bipolar Depression) earmarked for publication in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
Food Industry Documents:
2634 documents were added to the USRTK Food Industry Collection. This set of documents concern the activities of the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), a global organization funded by large multinational food and beverage companies, including Coca-Cola. ILSI was founded in 1978 by Alex Malaspina, a vice president at Coca-Cola. The communications between ILSI and academic researchers at U.S. universities illustrate the network connecting for-profit food and beverage companies with scientific experts who produce research and recommendations affecting government policy and regulation.
New Papers and Publications:
The IDL Bibliography added 5 new papers written using Tobacco and Food Industry Documents.
Nguyen Kim H, Glantz Stanton A, Palmer Casey N, Schmidt Laura A. Tobacco industry involvement in children’s sugary drinks market BMJ 2019; 364 :l736.
Kim H Nguyen of UCSF's Philip R Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, and colleagues Laura Schmidt, Casey Palmer and Stanton Glantz dug into the Truth Tobacco Industry Documents to show that many of today’s leading children’s drink brands were once owned and developed by tobacco companies. The tobacco companies initially acquired soft drink brands to diversify and documents show they applied marketing strategies aimed at kids (colors, flavors, cartoon characters) to promote and develop the brands. Although the brands have since been sold to food companies, the marketing techniques remain in use.
New York Times piece on the article:
Jacobs, Andrew. How Big Tobacco Hooked Children on Sugary Drinks - New York Times, March 14, 2019
Example = The Evolution of Advertising for Hawaiian Punch
Chemical Industry Documents Archive
We are pleased to announce the addition of the PFAS Collection to our Chemical Industry Documents Archive. This initial set of internal documents, donated by the film team behind "The Devil We Know," discuss the toxicity of C8, pending litigation, and DuPont's messaging around the exposure levels found in the buildings and surrounding areas.
Public Lectures/Talks
We had a number of well-attended and compelling talks showcasing our Food Industry and Chemical Industry Archives last year. We now have the videos of these public events posted permanently under Public Lectures on our Research Tools tab. We hope to continue to provide these talks as new collections and industry archives are added.
Bibliography Additions
New papers added to the Bibliography include:
On November 15th, the UCSF Industry Documents Library partnered with the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies in an event to launch the new Food Industry Documents Archive. The link to the recording is now available!
The recording covers the full symposium and includes talks by author and NYU Professor Emerita Marion Nestle, UCSF faculty including Stan Glantz, Cristin Kearns, Kim Nguyen, and Laura Schmidt, and an introduction/walkthrough of the Food Industry Documents Archive.
The link to the event recording is here:
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPdSQGGMt89dFR4ozvuWC0nD1OBbE_9Jd
The photo gallery is here:
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPRZfWsK3QUaxRLsi3cM4zIXuFbaoJbFZ3D6Wx1vQthO0VTQVhtH9VRU7hO1fq_bA?key=aEhYa3ZSd2FSZFJTMXhuQnZXYTdDbktRbTBiRHZ3