As a controversy looms over tax initiatives in San Francisco, Oakland and Albany, a new report shows the sugar industry's influence on health research to discount sugar as a contributing factor of heart disease. The proposed tax would place a penny per ounce tax on sugar sweetened beverages. But the beverage industry is lobby is spending over $10 million to defeat the initiatives in the Bay Area. But newly released released documents show the sugar industry has long sought to steer public health policy.
Reported by Corinne Smith (Photo: Sam Hodgsen/Reuters)