Friday, March 22, 2019
5000+ New Industry Documents Posted
Truth Tobacco Industry Documents Update:
1362 tobacco industry documents were added to IDL this week!
Includes:
Food Industry Documents Archive Update:
4,346 documents were added to the William Darby Papers this week. William Darby was a member of the National Academy of Science and became President of the Nutrition Foundation, a major processed food trade group which included sugar companies. Acquired from Vanderbilt University, these selected papers include nutrition science committee records, correspondence within the field, and public relations files on sugar and food additives. This batch brings the total holdings in our
Darby Collection to over 40,000 documents!
Friday, March 15, 2019
What do Kool-Aid and Marlboro have in common? The tobacco industry...
A new paper out this week in the BMJ reveals how the tobacco industry applied their marketing tactics to sugar sweetened beverages and turned generations of children into customers.
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
Friday, February 22, 2019
28,000+ New Food and Chemical Industry Documents Uploaded
It's been a busy month for our
Food Industry Documents Archive!
- The New York Times Coca-Cola Collection contains 1700 documents with more to come. Donated by NYT journalist Anahad O'Connor, these documents shed light on the Coca Cola backed non-profit group Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN), an organization that aimed to promote physical activity instead of reduced sugar consumption as a solution to chronic disease and obesity.
- Over 23,000 new documents were added to the William Darby Papers Collection
- 3,900 new documents were added to the Great Western Sugar Company Collection
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:
- Maani Hessari,Ruskin, McKee & Stuckler. Public Meets Private: Conversations Between Coca-Cola and the CDC. Milbank Quarterly, 2019.
- Crosbie, Bialous, Glantz. Memoranda of understanding: a tobacco industry strategy to undermine illicit tobacco trade policies. Tobacco Control, 2019.
Friday, January 25, 2019
4,398 New Industry Documents Posted to the IDL
A total of
4398 new documents were added to the Industry Documents Library this week!
Tobacco Documents:
The
4266 Tobacco Industry Documents include:
- 37 Philip Morris records
- 4195 RJ Reynolds records
- 20 Lorillard records
- 3 B&W records
- 11 American Tobacco records
Food Industry Documents:
We are excited to announce 132 documents in our new
USRTK Food Industry Collection. This new document set includes correspondence among the United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC), governmental health organizations, and the Coca-Cola Company.
Thursday, December 13, 2018
8790 New Industry Documents Posted
A total of 8,790 new industry documents were added to the IDL today:
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Tobacco Industry Documents Bibliography update:
4 new papers and publications have been added to the bibliography including articles on menthol's use in recruiting and retaining young smokers in Singapore, TTCs in Paraguay, and the tobacco industry's influence on policies in Oklahoma.
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Announcing the UCSF Food Industry Documents Archive
The UCSF Industry Documents Library (IDL) is pleased to announce the launch of the
Food Industry Documents Archive, a brand new collection of over 30,000 documents related to the food industry and its impact on public health. These documents, now available online for the first time, highlight marketing, research, and policy strategies used by food companies and trade groups, and reveal the communications and connections between industry, academic, and regulatory organizations.
The Food Industry Documents Archive was created in collaboration with the
UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies.
The Food Industry Documents were digitized and made available online through partnerships with other libraries, archives, and related organizations, bringing together historical and contemporary materials to support inquiry into long-standing industry practices. Major collections include:
The Braga Brothers Collection (2,801 Documents): Selected documents from the Braga Brothers Collection at the University of Florida. The principal holdings in this collection are the administrative records of Louis V. Placé, Jr., vice president of the W.J. McCahan Sugar Refining and Molasses Company, who also served on the executive committee of the Sugar Institute and later helped initiate the Sugar Research Foundation
DC Leaks Coca Cola Emails (346 Documents): internal emails obtained by DC Leaks, containing conversations between Coca Cola executives and Capricia Marshall, a communications consultant working with Coca Cola as well as the Clinton campaign, which describe a variety of strategies to defeat local and national public health policies regarding sugary beverages
Robert Shank Papers (17,969 Documents): Contains selected documents from the Robert E. Shank Papers housed at the Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University, St. Louis. Shank was associated with the formation of standards for minimum dietary allowances by the National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board and served as a consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service, the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for National Defense, the Pan American Health Organization, several food industry associations and government-sponsored nutrition programs in Latin America
Additional collections will be added over the next year.
Topics include: the Sugar Research Foundation, the International Sugar Research Foundation, the Sugar Institute, cane and beet sugar production, sugar-sweetened beverages, sugared snack foods advertised to children, the U.S. Public Health Service, and the National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board.
These documents have been used as the source for a number of publications including:
Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat, by Marion Nestle
Mother Jones:
Big Sugar’s Sweet Little Lies, by Gary Taubes and Cristin Kearns
New York Times:
Sugar Industry Long Downplayed Potential Harms, by Anahad O’Connor
The Food Industry Documents Archive collection joins the existing Tobacco, Drug, and Chemical Industry Documents collections, allowing users to search across industries and identify common tactics used to sway scientific research, shape public opinion, and influence policies and regulations meant to protect public health.
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