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How industry capture of Filipino officials helped deadlock global tobacco control negotiations

1 week ago | theexamination.org | Maria Perez |María Pérez |Matthew Chapman

If you are interested in republishing or featuring this story, please contact us. Top government officials in the Philippines sought to protect the tobacco industry’s economic interests at one of the most important global health gatherings in the world, according to newly uncovered documents. The conference brings together representatives from more than 180 countries that are party to a landmark World Health Organization treaty that went into effect two decades ago.
A scientist is paid to study maple syrup. He’s also paid to promote it.

1 month ago | theexamination.org | Will Evans |Anjali Tsui |Ellen Gabler

This article was reported in collaboration with The New York Times. For more than a decade, Navindra Seeram, a biomedical researcher, has praised maple syrup, calling it a “hero ingredient” and “champion food” that could have wide-ranging health benefits. Seeram, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of New England, has published more than three dozen studies extolling the power of maple.
Grünenthal pushed its latest opioid as a safer option. People around the world got hooked.

1 month ago | theexamination.org | Hristio Boytchev |Madlen Davies |Rafael Cabrera

World of Pain is a reporting collaboration among journalists in more than 10 countries on how opioid companies worldwide are profiting as addiction and overdoses rise. This story is co-published in partnership with The Lancet and The Telegraph. Linda Matthews fell in love with a man who was charming and funny and, like her, loved rugby and true crime. Brad Liefvoort was her soulmate. She could see herself raising a family with him. Then came the drugs.
Trump administration cuts threaten already-strained food safety system

1 month ago | theexamination.org | Ashley Okwuosa |Sasha Chavkin

Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned imports from eight companies that had shipped clams from China contaminated with PFAS – a class of toxins known as forever chemicals because they don’t break down in the body. But when the alert went out, several of the food safety scientists who had kept the tainted shellfish from reaching American consumers were no longer at the agency.
Kenya sets precedent with graphic health warnings on vapes and nicotine pouches

2 months ago | theexamination.org | Matthew Chapman

The Kenyan government has mandated graphic new health warnings on all new nicotine products in a precedent-setting move for public health in Africa. The new warnings were signed into law one year after an investigation by The Examination found the government had previously weakened health warnings on nicotine pouches after British American Tobacco threatened to pull investment from a new factory in the country’s capital.
Former FDA lawyers join tobacco industry in ‘epic’ fight against the agency

Oct 21, 2024 | theexamination.org | Kathryn Kranhold

This story is published in partnership with STAT. Perham Gorji was a career government lawyer, helping to lead the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s battle against tobacco and e-cigarettes. He was there as the agency contemplated a ban on menthol cigarettes, and as vapes of all shapes and sizes flooded the market, hooking a new generation on nicotine. Last year, Gorji followed a well-trodden path for Washington, D.C., lawyers.
US private equity invests in chemical industry tied to global lead poisoning, worrying health experts

Sep 25, 2024 | theexamination.org | Will Fitzgibbon

U.S. private equity firms have bought up producers and distributors of a chemical compound known to cause brain damage, cancer and other illnesses, according to a new report. Blackstone and American Securities LLC, who control assets worth billions of dollars, have in recent years acquired operations in Canada and elsewhere that sell lead chromate, a toxic powder used in paint, on roads and machinery, and even in food, to brighten colors, add weight or withstand high temperatures.
Chronic pain and opioids: a crisis goes global

Sep 16, 2024 | theexamination.org | Madlen Davies

The World of Pain project, an investigative collaboration involving The Examination and 10 media partners, reveals that pharmaceutical companies are using tactics long discredited in the U.S. to sell opioids internationally. Here’s why doctors are moving away from recommending opioids for chronic pain. What is chronic pain? Medical experts define chronic pain as pain that lasts for more than 12 weeks or that persists long after recovery from an injury or an illness.
The Examination celebrates its one year anniversary

Sep 13, 2024 | theexamination.org | Ben Hallman

I slept through the most important single moment in The Examination’s history. It was the morning of September 13, 2023. I’d set my alarm for 4 a.m. The Examination’s website was due to go live an hour later, as would the two major investigations we’d labored over for months. My hand woke up enough to hit the snooze button, apparently more than once, without my brain activating at all. At 5:45 a.m. I awoke with a start, and a panic. It had been a long few weeks, months, a year.
BAT says it won’t make nicotine pouches in Kenya amid over proposed health warnings

Aug 28, 2024 | theexamination.org | Matthew Chapman

British American Tobacco says it will sell factory machinery for locally producing nicotine pouches in Kenya, amid a dispute about proposed health warnings on the products.