The Trump administration has filed away a controversial report that argued that alcohol consumption is unsafe at any level and that the U.S. Dietary Guidelines should be adjusted to reflect that. The report was written by a special committee that was organized by the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking (ICCPUD) and staffed by researchers with ties to anti-alcohol advocacy groups. The decision to sideline the report came after more than 100 members of Congress demanded to know why ICCPUD, an agency that has never focused on adult drinking, was conducting the review even after Congress had commissioned the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) to conduct its traditional review of alcohol and health issues for the guidelines.
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