WASHINGTON — The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has denied a petition to use the term "corn sugar" as an alternate name for high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
The petition had been filed by the Corn Refiners Association. However, FDA's Michael M. Landa, director of the Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition, turned down the name change request.
In a letter to the Corn Refiners Association, the FDA noted that sugar is a solid, dried and crystallized food; whereas syrup is an aqueous solution or liquid food.
"Consequently, the use of the term "corn sugar" for HFCS would. . .
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