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Comment
. 2019 Jan 25:364:l366.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.l366.

Sweeteners are added to modify consumer behaviour

Sven E Jordt  1 , Sairam Jabba  1
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Sweeteners are added to modify consumer behaviour

Sven E Jordt et al. BMJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: SEJ’s research is supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Center for Tobacco Products of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under award numbers U54DA036151 and R01ES029435. The content of this letter is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the views of the NIH or the FDA. SEJ received research reagents from GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals and provided consulting services to Hydra Biosciences and Sanofi Pharmaceuticals, for studies unrelated to this response.

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