date:Aug 18, 2014
Cereal-based sweetener output could surge in the cereal- and starch-rich but sugar-poor countries of Eastern Europe after EU sugar production quotas are lifted in 2017.
Output of isoglucose, also known as high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), is now subject to a production quota of about 700,000 tonnes a year, or some 4 percent of the EU sweeteners market.
Most production in the 28-nation European Union currently takes place in eastern countries.
Rabobank said EU isoglucose output could jump to be