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Corn Refiners Association

Fight Over Sweeteners Is About Profit, Not Health Issues

Timi Gustafson, R.D. | Posted 11.19.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Sugar Association, Added Sweeteners, Corn Refiners Association, Sugar, Hfcs, Sugar High Fructose Corn Syrup, High Fructose Corn Syrup, HFCS Health, Sugar and HFCS, HFCS and Health, Sweeteners, Sugar and Corn Syrup, Health News, Healthy Living News
Timi Gustafson, R.D.

A group of food companies has filed a lawsuit against the Sugar Association, a trade group representing the sugar industry, for making false claims in advertising that allegedly caused loss of profit and other damages.

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It's National Donut Day but Otherwise a Bad Week for Sweet Things

Bill Chameides | Posted 08.01.2012 | Green
Read More: Chemistry, Nutrition, Michael Bloomberg, Crops, Corn Refiners Association, Corn, Agriculture, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Sugar, Food, Subsidies, Obesity, Food and Drug Administration, New York, Hfcs, Green News
Bill Chameides

Americans have traditionally loved sweet things. Think about it. You can't get any more American than a sweet slice of apple pie.

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FDA Rejects 'Corn Sugar' As New Name For High Fructose Corn Syrup

AP | CANDICE CHOI | Posted 05.31.2012 | Home
Read More: Corn Refiners Association, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Sugar, Sugar Association, Fda, Con Sugar Lawsuit, Video, Home News

NEW YORK -- High fructose corn syrup won't get a wholesome new name after all. The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday rejected the Corn Refine...

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Corn Sugar Lawsuit Moves Forward

AP | By ANDREW DALTON | Posted 12.23.2011 | Home
Read More: Corn Syrup, Video, Corn Industry, Corn, Corn Sugar Lawsuit, Corn Sugar, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Corn Refiners Association, Sugar Industry, Corn Refiners, Sugar, Fructose, Home News

LOS ANGELES -- A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking to stop the corn industry's use of the term "corn sugar" for high fructose corn syrup ...

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Corn Syrup vs. Sugar: What's The Difference?

AP | THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 11.13.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Corn Sugar, American Medical Association, Corn Syrup Lawsuit, Corn Industry, Corn Refiners Association, Sugar Industry, Sugar, Los Angeles News

LOS ANGELES — The setting sun splashes warm hues across a ripening cornfield as a man and his daughter wander through rows of towering plants. ...

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"Sugar is Sugar" Claims the Corn Refiners Association. But Is It?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Precautionary Principle, Corn-Refiners-Association, Prevention, Children, Health, Adm, Cargill, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Genetically Modified Food, Obesity, Sugar, Allergies, Corn Allergies, Home News
Robyn O'Brien

The Corn Refiners Association has petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asking that manufacturers have the option of using "corn sugar" as an alternate name for high fructose corn syrup.

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The New Policy Battlefield: All Eyes On Coca-Cola And Social Media PR

Martin Luz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Sweet Surprise, Sugar-Tax, Glover Park Group, Corn-Refiners-Association, Social Media Pr, Lobbying, Americans Against Food Taxes, American Beverage Association, Sucrose, Sweeteners, Coke, Obesity, Fructose, Social Media Marketing, Sugar, The Coca Cola Company, Social Media, Coca-Cola, Robert Lustig, Metabolic Syndrome, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Glucose, Alan Aragon, Grocery Manufacturers Association, Business News
Martin Luz

If you want to see how future national policy wars will be fought, keep your eye on Coca-Cola and the American Beverage Association. Over the next few years sugar will become the new tobacco.

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Our Kids: More Than a Sales Channel for Big Pharma

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Corn Refiners Association, Pharmaceutical Industry, Autism, Epinephrine, Kids Safe Chemical Act, Vaccines, Allergies, Healthy Living News
Robyn O'Brien

We've got 80,000 chemicals in our everyday products here in the US, but the EPA has required testing on only 200 of them. Is it any wonder that the health of American children is under siege?

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