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Food company sponsorship of nutrition research and professional activities: a conflict of interest?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2007

Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle*
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition and Food Studies, New York University, 35 W. 4th Street, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10012-1172, USA
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*Corrresponding author: Email marion.nestle@nyu.edu
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , October 2001 , pp. 1015 - 1022
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