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Lobbying Group Incredibly Evokes "Free Speech" After Suing to Censor Consumer Education WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In court documents filed yesterday, attorneys for the U.S. sugar industry tried to deny that The Sugar Association is deceiving consumers into believing that processed table sugar is safer and more healthful than high fructose corn syrup, even as several recent media stories revealed they are funding secretive campaigns to attack HFCS and other...
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- It started with the name. Now four of the nation's largest corn processors are attempting to blame the Sugar Association. The problem is their product - high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) - and the fact that is not the same as natural sugar. After failing to gain approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to change the name for HFCS to "corn sugar" and then to stop a major national lawsuit against them,...
WASHINGTON, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Corn Refiners Association (CRA) said today it is eager to defend the right of consumers to be informed that high fructose corn syrup is just another kind of sugar, following a decision by a federal judge to include trade association members as defendants in a lawsuit brought by processed sugar interests, including the Sugar Association. "This ruling is solely about who is included in the lawsuit and has no bearing on the merits...
A bitter feud has erupted between two “sweet“ groups, partly blamed on a recent medical study that claimed that “sugar can make you dumb,” and further cast by the ruling of a federal agency rejecting one group’s attempt to refine its product’s title. The issue at hand is the Corn Refiners Association’s bid to rename high fructose corn syrup as “corn sugar.” In an attempt to reverse the bad reputation high fructose corn syrup has been labeled with in recent years, the...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Sugar Association, citing recent consumer research and a new study on human metabolism, advised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to reject a pending request to change the name of high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). In 15 pages of comments submitted to the FDA, the Sugar Association confirmed that the proposed name change would mislead consumers. The comments included findings from a recent in-depth survey by consumer research expert...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the debates about "eat this -- not that" continue to dominate the obesity conversations, it is time to set the record straight about what sweetens most of the non-diet beverages in the United States. It is High Fructose Corn Syrup 55 (HFCS), not sugar (sucrose). In hundreds of news stories and articles published in the last 12 months, all-natural sugar is misidentified as a prominent soda sweetener. Terms like "sugary sodas" and...
