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Science institute that advised EU and UN "actually industry lobby group"

“An institute whose experts have occupied key positions on EU and UN regulatory panels is, in reality, an industry lobby group that masquerades as a scientific health charity. The Washington-based International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) describes its mission as ‘pursuing objectivity, clarity and reproducibility’ to ‘benefit the public good.’ But researchers from the University of Cambridge, Bocconi University in Milan, and the US Right to Know campaign assessed over 17,000 pages of documents under US freedom of information laws to present evidence of influence-peddling.”

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