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FDA Scolds Big Corn For "Corn Sugar" Ads & Websites

FDA Scolds Big Corn For "Corn Sugar" Ads & Websites

For more than a year, the folks at the Corn Refiners Association have been making a very public push to rebrand the controversial but widely used high fructose corn syrup as “corn sugar,” telling consumers that “sugar is sugar.” But newly uncovered correspondence between the Food and Drug Administration and Big Corn show that regulators aren’t exactly thrilled about the new name. [More]