Abstracts from the Collegium Ramazzini

Abstract

Vested interests, whose primary goal is to protect markets for products which frequently have hazardous potentials, are increasingly combined with distortion of science applied in legislation, policy-making, standard-setting and legal proceedings. The Collegium Ramazzini held a panel entitled “Corporate Influence Threatens the Public’s Health” on November 1, 2018 at the Annual Ramazzini Days in Carpi, Italy, which drew attention to these hazardous malfeasances. Strategies to meet the related ongoing challenges by promoting and protecting the integrity of research, the welfare of patients and society, and the quality of medical/health education, were debated. The following conference abstracts as well as a related commentary (see this issue) were originally published in the European Journal of Oncology Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 121-127, 2018. The authors and editor of the European Journal of Oncology have agreed to re-publish their abstracts in the first issue of the Journal of Scientific Practice and Integrity. The original publication is available from: https://mattioli1885journals.com/index.php/Europeanjournalofoncology