date:May 26, 2016
The FDA encourages firms that market sugar cane-derived sweeteners or products that contain a sugar cane-derived sweetener to review the final guidance and consider whether their labeling terminology accurately describes the basic nature and characterizing properties of the sweetener used. The guidance recommends that ingredients currently labeled as evaporated cane juice be relabeled to use the term sugar, optionally accompanied by a truthful, non-misleading descriptor to distinguish the ingre