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SW: →Handling conflicts of interest: Added "high standard"
On its website GreenFacts states that "the scientists involved in the drafting or the review of the Digests must inform the Board of Directors and the SB [Scientific Board] of possible conflicts of interests." <ref>GreenFacts Foundation[http://about.greenfacts.org/publications/peer-review.htm "The Digests' Peer-review process"], accessed December 2007.</ref>
However, there is limited disclosure of information to the public which would enable those outside the organization to determine whether actual or potential conflicts of interests exist. The authors of digests are disclosed in the "About" section of each Digest, but the "peer-reviewers" are only disclosed for Digests published since 2005. The biographical details posted on the groups organization's website on members of the Scientific Board - who select the source documents - are cursory and do not provide any details of current or past consultancy affiliations. <ref>[http://about.greenfacts.org/whos-who/scientific-board.htm "GreenFacts' Scientific Board"], accessed December 2007. </ref> The individual digests list who was involved in the preparation of the report and its "peer review". However, it is unclear what disclosure standards are required of reviewers. It must however be acknowledged that such information is usually not available of any other website and that the level of transparency and disclosure of GreenFacts' website is higher than most other websites.
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