The Agriculture and Horticulture Improvement Board (AHDB) is asking on medical journal The Lancet to retract the International Burden of Illness research of 2019.

Its request for the retraction comes after what it stated is a “lack of readability” from the journal on whether or not the 2019 replace was scrutinised by friends and carried out consistent with acceptable procedures to make sure its accuracy.

The research is used, the AHDB stated, to “assist claims that pink meat consumption is a trigger of upper well being dangers”.

That is regardless of the publication of one other research carried out by the identical authors of the 2019 research which discovered “weak proof of affiliation between unprocessed pink meat consumption and colorectal most cancers, breast most cancers, kind two diabetes and ischemic coronary heart illness”, it stated.

Chief government of the AHDB, Tim Rycroft, stated The Lancet is a “extremely regarded” medical journal and the International Burden of Illness dataset is extremely influential on public well being and diet coverage.

“Due to this fact it’s crucial that this science follows due course of and important assessment to make sure the best accuracy and, not least, legitimacy,” he stated.

“As an evidence-based organisation, we’re significantly involved concerning the lack of transparency round how this knowledge has been analysed and the best way by which the brand new proof assessment standards has been decided.

“Due to this fact, on behalf of our levy payers, we are going to proceed to push for transparency on this, to make sure the well being impacts of pink meat consumption are precisely depicted in science, coverage and certainly society.”

Rycroft stated pink meat presents a beneficial contribution to a wholesome balanced weight loss program, and the authors of research acknowledge that proof, which reveals a protecting relationship between pink meat consumption and stroke has been missed.

“As has its protecting relationship with iron deficiency anaemia, sarcopenia and youngster and maternal malnutrition,” he stated.