Pouring rights contracts between universities and beverage companies: Provisions related to scientific research.

Sara E Benjamin-Neelon, Elyse R Grossman, Eva Greenthal, Stephanie A Lucas, Katherine Marx, Martha Ruffin

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Article in Preventive medicine reports, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

Do US-based university pouring rights contracts with beverage companies include provisions that promote environmental sustainability?Preventive medicine reports · 2025
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6 authors.

Sara E Benjamin-NeelonDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States.

Elyse R GrossmanDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States.

Eva GreenthalCenter for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC 20005, United States.

Stephanie A LucasLucas Consulting, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464, United States.

Katherine MarxCenter for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, DC 20005, United States.

Martha RuffinDepartment of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, United States.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Pouring rights contracts between universities and beverage companies are common and grant companies the exclusive right to serve, sell, and market specific beverages on campuses. In exchange, universities receive financial payments and other incentives. At the same time, beverage industry-sponsored research at universities has increased. Pouring rights contracts may include provisions that allocate funds for or place limitations on scientific research. In this cross-sectional study, we assessed whether pouring rights contracts contained provisions that allocated funds for or placed limitations on scientific research. From 2019 to 2020, we obtained contracts through requests under public records laws from US universities (public, 4-year,

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Academic integrityIndustry-sponsored researchNutrition researchSoft drinksSugar-sweetened beverages

Identifiers

PMID35855921

DOI10.1016/j.pmedr.2022.101897

PMCPMC9287474

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