User:HLHJ/sandbox/European Journal of Nutrition supplements

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.

2017

• Supplement 1: "Dietary Guidance for Lutein – Consideration for Intake Recommendations is Scientifically Supported" Editor, James C. Griffiths, who works for the Council for Responsible Nutrition. It describes itself thus: "CRN is a highly-respected, trusted source of information on dietary supplements and functional food issues for federal, state and local lawmakers." Wikipedia and the San Francisco Chronicle call it a lobby group.
• Supplement 2: "Public health relevance of drug–nutrition interactions" No editor given. There is only one article in this supplement. It is a conference report for a workshop organized by University Medical Center Groningen and DSM Nutritional Products Ltd..
• Supplement 3: "Optimal nutrition and the ever-changing dietary landscape: a conference report" Editors, Jodi Dunmeyer Stookey and Jürgen König (also written Juergen Koenig). They work at the Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute (mainly funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which, astonishingly, is also funded by soda companies!) and the University of Vienna Department of of Nutritional Sciences, respectively, according to Researchgate. The single paper published in the supplement is a report on a conference funded by the Council for Responsible Nutrition-International, a trade association for the dietary supplement industry in the U.S..
• 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). The lead author of the second paper is also James M. Rippe, the founder and director of Rippe Health. 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. 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.

2015

• Supplement 6: "Assessment of Fluid Intake Across Countries Around the World: Methodological and Public Health Implications" Editors, Jodi Dunmeyer Stookey and Jürgen König again, see supplement 3. It is "a supplement supported by Danone Nutricia Research", as you will find out if you click through to one of the actual articles.
• Supplement 7: The supplement has no title on the journal's web page, and no editor is given, but the single article in it is called "A quality dietary supplement: before you start and after it’s marketed—a conference report. It says "This is the fifth CRN-International conference report. Previous conference reports were published in Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology [16], and for the last 3 years, in the European Journal of Nutrition [1, 3, 12]." The Council for Responsible Nutrition-International, as previously mentioned, is a trade association for the dietary supplement industry in the U.S..

2014

• 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."

2013

• Supplement 9: No name and no editor given, contains only one article, called Nutrient reference values for bioactives: new approaches needed? A conference report. Another report on a Council for Responsible Nutrition-International-funded conference.

2012

From here on, the content is not open-access.

• 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 11: No name and no editor given, contains only one article, called Nutrition issues in Codex: health claims, nutrient reference values and WTO agreements: a conference report. "The expenses related to the authors’ participation in the conference and the manuscript were covered by CRN-International."

2009

• 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".