I would like more details on what "ties" means, since US Right To Know is a well known pseudoscience and fearmongering group, pushing anti-vaccine nonsense among other things. It doesn't help that "big agriculture, ultra-processed food companies, pharmaceutical companies and other corporate organizations" is ridiculously broad.

Yes, people on a food and nutrition panel are going to have some tie to...food and nutrition as a field. That's not a surprising statement.

And how they are connected to the specific companies listed needs explaining, since the US Right To Know group has in the past claimed that any form of email conversation or a company donating to a university someone works at counts as ties.

I wish I could be shocked and horrified but this just seems like par for the course at this point

No way... people who are experts in the food/health industry are involved with giving dietary advice? The horror.

Of course there isn't a link to the reports, so I have to go looking for it. Anyway here's the report. PDF - page 8 for the results. I spot-checked a few of them - the conflicts of interest I saw was in the form of companies sponsoring research done. ...which is pretty much how the majority of research gets done I believe..

Also I see coca-cola referenced ONCE as a "possible" COI

Position in industry-sponsored conferences: Dr. Booth was selected to speak at a conference sponsored by Bayer, Coca-Cola, and Abbott, among other industry actors

yet this article seems to deem it alright to put it as the posterboy image and list it prominently among other unpopular company names. Also they have to link to their boogeyman reporting about aspartame. You can see where HN tore it apart here.

This is why I hate news nowadays. I could've made some good food in the past 20 minutes on a nice Saturday, but instead I wasted time finding out a guardian article was bullshit.

This used to be all "conspiracies" and some folks got picked on for pointing this shit out. It turned out that there is no such thing as "conspiracies", literally everything you hear is real. It's all a giant mob. They look out for each other. Who gives a fuck about people, as long as their pockets are lined up.

You think they became corrupt after they got the position or did they get the position because they were corrupt?

Regulatory capture is out of control.