Food label changes

Corn Industry Attempts to Hoodwink Consumers with HFCS Name Change
Wednesday, October 06, 2010 by: Tony Isaacs, citizen journalist
http://www.naturalnews.com/029951_HFCS_corn_sugar.html
(NaturalNews) In the face of mounting consumer concerns about the dangers of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)
the Corn Refiners Association has come up with a solution: Instead of trying to give consumers a healthier product, they have petitioned the FDA to let them give HFCS a new name: "corn sugar".

Although food label changes aren't common, the FDA has allowed name changes in the past. The ingredient first called "low erucic acid rapeseed oil" was changed to the more pleasant sounding "canola oil" in the 1980s. More recently, the FDA allowed prunes to be called "dried plums."

Notably, and perhaps ominously, the FDA also permitted the use of different names for unhealthy monosodium glutamate (MSG), which now comes hidden in multitudes of food products with over 25 different names, including "natural flavoring" and "hydrolyzed vegetable protein".