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In its long-awaited final guidance issued May 25, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advised against the use of the term "evaporated cane juice" on food labeling, recommending that the ingredient be listed as "sugar" instead.
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In its long-awaited final guidance issued May 25, the Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) advised against the use of the term
"evaporated cane juice" on food labeling, recommending
that the ingredient be listed as "sugar" instead. While
the ingredient would commonly be understood to be sugar, the term
"evaporated cane juice" is misleading as it is not
"juice" within the meaning of the FDA's regulations.
Thus, "FDA would consider a juice product sweetened with an
ingredient derived from sugar cane and labeled as 100% fruit juice
to be misbranded" under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Act, "because the '100% fruit juice' claim is false
and misleading in that the product contains a non-juice sweetener
in addition to the juice." The agency would not, however,
object to "the addition of one or more truthful,
non-misleading descriptors before the common or usual name
'sugar,'" including the use of a "coined
term" to distinguish the ingredient from "other sugars on
the market." View the guidance.
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