On June 30, 2017, CJEM published a letter to the editor. 1 After the publication of this letter, there were concerns raised that there was no explicit statement of the potential conflict of interest the author may have had. Given that there was potential commercial interest in regards to the subject of the letter, the then-Editor-in-Chief made the decision to retract the letter given the lack of transparency, and a retraction notice was issued.Reference Weinberg 2
After further review, it was determined that the author had provided potential conflict of interest information with their initial submission, although not in accordance with the accepted forms for disclosure for CJEM authors. The author resubmitted their conflict of interest to the then-Editor-in-Chief, who reviewed the information and determined the retraction was no longer warranted, provided the conflict of interest be clearly noted in the original article.
A letter in response has since been published in tandem with the reinstatement of the previously retracted letter.Reference Mithani, Dong, Rosychuk and Yarema 3
The original letter has since been corrected to remove the retraction status and the conflict of interest statement has been added appropriately.
