Food Labeling

U.S. FDA denies soft drink industry request regarding ingredients

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 2nd, 2005

In a November 26, 2004 action, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) withdrew the soft drink industry's 1993 special exemption request to use "and/or" labeling on soft drinks, reaffirming it is illegal for soft drink manufacturers to use the "and/or" labeling of sweetening ingredients on their products.

The major soft drink manufacturers list "high fructose corn syrup and/or sucrose," in ingredient statements when in fact sugar has not been used in major soft drinks since the mid-1980s.

Soft drinks are sweetened almost exclusively with high fructose corn syrup.

In withdrawing the proposal, FDA once again rejected the soda...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2005-01-02)

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