Corn Refiners Association

The intramural squabble in the sweetener industry died out quietly, with the a trade group for corn syrup producers halting its efforts to curtail subsidies for sugar growers, said Reuters.

A trial in federal district court in Los Angeles 'has far-reaching implications for the food industry and American consumers," says the Palm Beach Post. Sugar growers accuse the corn processing industry of false advertising for saying that high-fructose corn syrup, which competes with cane and beet sugar for use by food and beverage makers, is "natural" and "nutritionally the same as sugar."

The Corn Refiners Association, a trade group whose members make sweeteners, ethanol and starch, "just hired 10 outside lobbyists for an aggressive, unorthodox attack on the federal sugar program just a year after a new farm bill was signed into law," says the Washington Post.