On May 25, 2016, the United States Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Nutrition and Food Labeling in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (“FDA”) published a final guidance for industry entitled “Ingredients Declared as Evaporated Cane Juice.” The guidance reinforces FDA’s longstanding requirement that ingredients in food be declared by their common or usual names. FDA advises industry that sweeteners derived from sugar cane, including those derived from sugar cane syrup, should not be declared as “evaporated cane juice” on food labels. Read the Client Alert here.

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