"President Joe Biden’s pick to run the National Institutes of Health has agreed to a pair of major ethics demands made by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to help jumpstart her stalled candidacy for the top medical research job.
Monica Bertagnolli, who was nominated more than three months ago, pledged to not seek employment or compensation from any of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies for four years after she leaves government..."
"95% of the committee members had #COI with the food &/or pharma industries [&] particular actors, including Kellogg, Abbott, Kraft, Mead Johnson, General Mills [&] Dannon…had connections with multiple members."
The agencies behind the dietary guidelines (#USDA & #HHS) didn't disclose these COI, despite a 2017 #NASEM recommendation to do so.