Integrity in Science Watch, 6/13/06 AAAAI to Publish Conflicts of Interest

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Center for Science in the Public Interest

Week of 6/13/06

Top Allergy Journal Will Publish Contributors' Conflicts of Interest

The nation's leading allergy journal now requires authors to publish their

ties to industry whenever their articles appear in that journal. The Journal

of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the official scientific journal of the

American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, recently adopted _new

guidelines_ (https://www.editorialmanager.com/jaci/default.asp) requiring

authors

to disclose consultant arrangements, stock or other equity ownership, patent

licensing arrangements, and expert witness testimony. Editor-in-Chief

Y.M. Leung initiated the policy change after the Center for Science in the

Public Interest uncovered the journal's failure to report that a review on the

health risk of mold exposure had been authored by two key defense witnesses

in mold liability lawsuits. (See Integrity in Science Watch, 3/31 and 4/24)