Saturday, June 9, 2012

FDA Gives an Insulin Shot In the Arm to Corn Syrup Critics

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Corn refinery"What's in a name? That which we call high-fructose corn syrup
By any other name would taste as sweet."
-- With apologies to William Shakespeare

If you ask America's Corn Refiners Association, it seems they put quite a lot of stock in a name. For years, the CRA has been trying to get the Food and Drug Administration to OK renaming high-fructose corn syrup, or HFCS, "corn sugar."

They lost that battle last week, when the FDA rejected their request. As a representative of the actual sugar...

FDA Gives an Insulin Shot In the Arm to Corn Syrup Critics originally appeared on DailyFinance.com on 2012-06-08T16:00:00Z.

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