In a letter this week, US lawmakers including New York Reps. Nicole Malliotakis and Mike Lawler seized on the fact that the study is being conducted by a group called the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Prevention of Underage Drinking — or ICCPUD.

More than 100 members of Congress have called for the US government to suspend an influential study about the health risks of alcohol as beer, wine and liquor makers raised concerns that a panel doin…