European Journal of Nutrition and its editorial staff are deeply committed to publishing integrity and follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and therefore are obliged to inform the readership about the continuous authorship dispute pertaining this article. Specifically, Dr. Saleh Alwasel’s name was excluded at the proof correction stage by the corresponding author, Dr. Gamal Badr. Dr. Alwasel contacted the publisher when he found the article published online first without his name on it. The publisher asked the authors to solve this dispute and included the COPE recommendations on settling author disputes for their advice, but unfortunately, an amicable agreement could not be reached until now. The publisher and editorial staff of the European Journal of Nutrition are not in a position to settle this conflict, but feel impelled to inform the readers about the status quo.

On behalf of the journal’s editorial staff:

Gerhard Rechkemmer, Editor-in-Chief