Recent claims that a kind of chocolate milk could aid in concussion recovery have come under fresh scrutiny by the university where the work was carried out.
On Friday, a University of Maryland committee released a report that raised “serious concerns” about the principal investigator of the as yet unpublished study involving a chocolate milk drink, Fifth Quarter Fresh, produced by the company Fluid Motion LLC.
The committee declared that the faculty member, Jae Shim, was in violation of university regulations regarding conflict of interest. Multiple times, Shim failed to disclose that Allied Milk Producers, an organization of which Fluid Motion was a member, contributed $200,000 to his lab.
Read Full Article »