Read entire article from Citizens for Health here: http://www.citizens.org/?p=3000
"For more than a year now we have been keeping you up-to-date on an underhanded campaign led by the Corn Refiners Association (CRA) to re-brand high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) "corn sugar". The centerpiece of the campaign was the CRA petition to the FDA seeking the agency's endorsement of their effort to dupe consumers...
"That's why we are truly excited to announce that the FDA stood up for the rights of consumers and against big agribusiness, and in a letter to CRA President Audrae Erickson dated yesterday, May 30 stated that “…your petition does not provide sufficient grounds for the agency to authorize ‘corn sugar’ as an alternate common or usual name for HFCS.”
"The CRA will now have to quit referring to high fructose corn syrup, or HFCS, as “corn sugar,” which it has been doing these days at every opportunity, apparently on the assumption that its 2010 petition would ultimately be granted despite the overwhelming opposition of consumers...
"So confident were the corn refiners in the pending approval of their petition, that in a press release issued last week they said, “Transitional co-labeling, such as ‘Corn Sugar (High Fructose Corn Syrup),’ and CRA’s education campaign will ensure consumers are well informed about the name change.”
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