date:Jun 01, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration denied the C.R.A.s petition to use corn sugar as an alternate name for HFCS, because the petition does not provide sufficient grounds for the agency to authorize corn sugar as an alternate common or usual name for HFCS.
Specifically, the F.D.A. stated it has specific standards of identity for sugar and syrup.
F.D.A.s regulatory approach for the nomenclature of sugar and syrups is that sugar is a solid, dried, and crystallized food; whereas syrup is an aqueous s