The petition was filed back in 2009 so this may be a repost from back in the day, but the FDA has just published it and is just now allowing an "open comment period" on the merits of this petition.
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Basically, the industry wants to add shit like aspartame or sucralose to milk and milk products like yogurt without having to label the product or add those items to the ingredient listing on the labels.
Yeah... :\
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Basically, the industry wants to add shit like aspartame or sucralose to milk and milk products like yogurt without having to label the product or add those items to the ingredient listing on the labels.
Yeah... :\
Milk has no added sugar, but the dairy industry is asking the Food and Drug Administration to allow it to add artificial sweeteners in the hopes of creating a lower-calorie milk product that will attract more consumers. The only catch: They don't want to announce the reduction in calories due to the sweetener on the label.
Currently the FDA regulation states that milk can contain only "nutritive sweeteners," which have calories and are recognized as safe by the FDA. According to the journal for the U.S. government, the Federal Register, the International Dairy Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) have asked the agency to allow the industry to use "any safe and suitable" sweetener and "allow optional characterizing flavoring ingredients used in milk (e.g., chocolate flavoring added to milk) to be sweetened with any safe and suitable sweetener including non-nutritive sweeteners such as aspartame." The industry believes that offering lower-calorie flavored milks, such as chocolate milk, will benefit school children who are more inclined to drink flavored milks. This lower-calorie product, they believe, will help in the fight against childhood obesity.