A plan by Coca-Cola Co. to use a naturally low-calorie sweetener made from Stevia in its soft drinks has been delivered a blow, after U.S. health regulators described it as an "unsafe food additive". Food firm Hain Celestial has been using Stevia, which is a South American herb, in some...
Cargill showcased its new sweeteners and fortifiers at Natural Products Expo in Anaheim, Calif. The company featured organically sweetened mandarin-flavored water using erythritol, a natural, no-calorie sweetener that provides bulk, texture and high Cargill showcased its new sweeteners and fortifiers at Natural Products Expo...
FDA recently wrote to soft drink manufacturers regarding the use of "and/or" labeling to identify nutritive sweeteners in the ingredient declaration on product labels. This letter clarifies that nutritive sweeteners present in soft drinks, FDA recently wrote to soft drink manufacturers regarding the use of...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has amended regulations in Sec. 101.80, to authorize a health claim regarding noncariogenic carbohydrate sweeteners to include sucralose. The action comes in response to a filing last year by McNeil WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
FDA APPROVES NEOTAME: The Food and Drug Administration approved a new sweetener, neotame, for use as a general-purpose sweetener in a wide variety of food products, other than meat and poultry. Neotame is a non-nutritive, high intensity sweetener tha FDA APPROVES NEOTAME: The Food and Drug...
Sunwin International Neutraceuticals, Inc. (OTC BB: SUWN), an industry leader in distribution and manufacturing of Chinese herbs, veterinary medicines and natural sweetener in China, announced today it has recovered sales of natural sweetener beet sugar in the fist six months of 2004. The Company has achieved $2 million in...
MINNEAPOLIS -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has cleared the way for Cargill Inc. here to market trehalose, a multifunctional sweetener. Under an agreement with Hayashibara Co: Ltd. of Japan, which manufactures and markets trehalose in Japan, Cargill has exclusive rights to develop and market the sweetener for food...
America has a sweet tooth. The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that per capita consumption of caloric sweeteners mainly sucrose and high fructose corn syrup jumped 32 pounds, or 27 percent between 1982 and 1996 (the most recent pe America has a sweet tooth. The...
THE HIGH-INTENSITY SWEETENER market is seeing new activity as sucralose, a product from McNeil Specialty Prod-Company MSPC, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, takes aim at the US beverage marker. Sucralose, which holds only a small share of THE HIGH-INTENSITY SWEETENER market...
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new sweetener, Neotame, which is about 7,000 to 13,000 times sweeter than sugar and about 20 to 30 times sweeter than aspartame, depending upon its application. The water soluble, white crystalline powd The Food and Drug Administration has...
THE HIGH-INTENSITY SWEETENER market is seeing new activity as sucralose, a product from McNeil Specialty Product Company MSPC , a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, takes aim at the US beverage marker. Sucralose, which holds only a small shar THE HIGH-INTENSITY SWEETENER...
FDA last week approved the use of the calorie-free sweetener acesulfame potassium, or Ace-K under the brand name Sunett, in liquid beverages. The sweetener, made by German-firm Nutrinova, is expected by analysts to revolutionize the diet beverage industry in the United States because of its unique taste characteristics and stability.
Sunwin International Neutraceuticals, Inc. (OTC BB: SUWN), an industry leader in the production and distribution of Chinese herbs, veterinary medicines and low calorie natural sweetener Stevia in China, has signed a distribution agreement with United States Distribution Corp ("USDC"). The agreement calls for USDC to distribute Sunwin's low calorie...
SWEETENERS Tate & Lyle PLC's product sucralose has received the backing of the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Food SCF. Sucralose has a sweetness potency of around 600 to 650 times that of sucrose, and is the only zero-calorie SWEETENERS Tate & Lyle...
Cargill, Inc. and Japan's Hayashibara Company Ltd. signed a letter of intent to evaluate the trehalose a naturally occurring sugar market in the Americas to determine the feasibility of Cargill establishing a manufacturing and marketing business for the multi-functional sweetener. As part of this evaluation, Cargill has been granted an...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ -- McNeil Specialty Products Co. has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to market Sucralose, its low-calorie sweetener better known by its trade name Splenda, as a general purpose sweetener. NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ -- McNeil Specialty Products Co....
The US government earlier this month requested establishment of a WTO Dispute Settlement Body DSB panel to help settle a lingering sweetener dispute with Mexico. The US considers certain tax measures of the government of Mexico on soft drinks and other beverages as well as on syrups, concentrates, powders, essences...
When a new sweetener won long-awaited approval from the Food & Drug Administration last July, Phil Marineau wasted no time. That day, the president-CEO of Pepsi-Cola North America announced the marketer would launch Pepsi One, a new diet cola mad When a new sweetener won long-awaited...
Ace-K gets FDA nod The U.S. carbonated diet soft drink category received a substantial boost when the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of acesulfame potassium calorie-free sweetener in liquid beverages June 30. Hoechst subsidiary NutrinovaAce-K gets FDA nod The U.S. carbonated diet soft drink category...
THE DEPARTMENT of Agriculture says that by using a process being developed by government scientists, corn fiber left over from ethanol production could be turned into a high-value, low-calorie sweetener for niche markets. The makers of sugarl THE...
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