Dental 4 Less, Does the Sugar industry ‘behaved like tobacco manufacturers
Undue influence by the sugar industry on US dental health policy has been alleged as part of an investigation into insider documents from the 1960s. When the science first established that sugar was the damaging component in tooth decay – and when the sugar industry saw there was this unquestionable harm – its trade organizations ignored dentists’ calls for restricting intake, and instead deflected the debate elsewhere, influencing public health research in food producers’ favor. Those are the allegations of researchers who have trawled a previously unexplored source of industry documents from the 60s.