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The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday rejected the Corn Refiners Association's bid to rename its sweetening agent "corn sugar."Given the sweetener's bad reputation in recent years, the association submitted an application to the agency in 2010 to have the product renamed on nutrition labels.But the FDA said that it defines sugar as a solid, dried and crystallized food — not a syrup.Separately, the Corn Refiners Association has also been running a marketing campaign to explain that its syrup is actually a form of sugar and has the same nutritional value as the familiar white, granular table sugar that consumers are familiar with.That in turn prompted a lawsuit from the Sugar Association last year claiming that the campaign is misleading.Dan Callister, a lawyer for the Sugar Association, said the FDA's decision confirms his group's position that sugar and high fructose corn syrup are two distinct products."What's g...A federal judge on Thursday ordered regulators to start proceedings to withdraw approval for the use of common antibiotics in animal feed, citing concerns that overu...
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Coca-Cola Co. and PepsiCo Inc. are changing the way they make the caramel coloring used in their sodas as a result of a California law that mandates drinks containin...
About half of the population drinks a sugar-sweetened beverage on any given day, with teens and young men consuming way more than recommended limits for staying heal...
Just in time for Halloween, the FDA has come out with a warning that eating too much black licorice could lead to heart problems in adults..Here are five surprising ...
Displaying the amount of time you'd need to jog in order to burn off the calories from a sugary drink, rather than showing a calorie count, may be more effective in ...
School meals for millions of children will be healthier under obesity-fighting U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) standards unveiled on Wednesday that double the ...
Are the toys in your child's Happy Meal making him fat?The Center for Science in the Public Interest says they are. The Washington-based consumer advocacy group thre...
Some chemically enhanced caramel food colorings used in widely consumed cola drinks could cause cancer and should be banned, a U.S. consumer advocacy group urged the...
SAN FRANCISCO - You want your back-to-schooler to eat a healthy diet, so you pack a "wheat" bread sandwich and tuck a "juice" drink in her brown-bag lunch. But did y...
Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's is dropping the phrase "all natural" from all labels after a request from a health advocacy group.The Center for Science in the Public ...
Nutritional labels will be mandatory on 40 popular cuts of meat and poultry products beginning in 2012, a measure the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday w...
What defines sugar? It's getting to be a stickier question.The Sugar Association is accusing the makers of high fructose corn syrup of trying to candy-coat their ima...
News about gross-out ingredients like pink slime and ammonia (more about both later) got us thinking: What other surprises lurk in the food we eat? We put that quest...
Is it really more expensive to eat healthy?An Agriculture Department study released Wednesday found that most fruits, vegetables and other healthy foods cost less th...
Junk food may soon be hard to buy at American public schools as the U.S. government readies new rules requiring healthier foods to be sold beyond the cafeteria - a m...
U.S. regulators said soft drinks from PepsiCo Inc and Coca-Cola Co posed no health risk, contrary to a U.S. watchdog group that reported several popular brands conta...
A California judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit against McDonald's that claimed the fast food giant used toys to market its meals to children.The suit was f...
Children in California will still be able to get toys with their Happy Meals.A San Francisco judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit that sought to stop ...
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