FDA At It Again: Maple Syrup And Honey Producers Upset Over New Label Requirements
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A few weeks ago, I shared a story about a farmer who was in an ongoing battle with the FDA over how they wanted him to label his skim milk. The government wanted the farmer to label his skim milk as imitation skim milk or imitation milk because it didn't have any added synthetic vitamins.
The farmer, Randy Sowers, only wanted to sell the most natural skim milk possible and didn't want to have to confuse people in the market with a label that might suggest the product was something other than pure or natural.
And now maple syrup and honey producers are upset with the FDA over the proposed changes to the food label requirements on their products as well.
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THERE ARE NO ADDED SUGARS...
The large manufacturers (over $10 million in food sales annually) of these products will need to comply by the new changes by the first of January 2020, and the smaller manufacturers (less than $10 million in food sales annually) have until a year later.
Producers say that the newly proposed changes, including the label, are also confusing even though they might have been made with good intentions. When people come across the shelf and pick-up a bottle of pure honey or pure syrup and they then see that added sugar notice, then they might wrongfully assume that sugar has been added when it hasn't been.
As the vice president, Chris Hiatt, of the American Honey Producers Association has pointed out, honey is a pure sugar, so there is no need to add any other sugars.
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Sources:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2018/05/01/maple-honey-producers-fda-added-sugars-label/571398002/
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/vermont/articles/2018-05-01/maple-honey-producers-decry-fda-added-sugars-label
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/added-sugar-not-so-fast-say-maple-syrup-producers,538660
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Pretty standard projection by the industry. Accuse the other of what you do. Store bought "maple syrup" is often times sugar with maple flavoring and corn derivatives. Fuck them. Fuck this. The FDA is a shit hole.
WTF?!...
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Fuck FDA, fuck regulations
I do not know in other parts of the world, but in Argentina this happens because the regulators place unsuitable personnel in these key positions, by not interpreting the product, they do not know how to categorize them.
Thank you very much dear friend @doitvoluntarily for this information
I wish you a beautiful night
A fellow Steemian in Argentina. Do you live near Chubut? I have never seen "leche imitado" (immitation milk) in stores ever in the city I live.
This is a perfect example of lobbyists ruining organic/natural industry! It makes me sick they can even do this kind of thing. Its obviously misleading, I'm sure its done purposely.
Thanks for alerting me to this. Goes on my list of more Agenda 21 policies being implemented.
Bootleg honey it is at 50 STEEM a gallon. All natural, no added bullshit. Coming Soon...
I totally understand why these farmers or the honey and syrup producers would be very upset. This is terrible and really frustrating since really it is lying about what is in the product they sell and I believe that this will hurt them in the long run.
I'm sorry but it seem like the FDA is trying to get rid off all the natural, healthy products by hurting the producers of it and the farmers and instead sell us all this synthetic foods that really are killing us.
This is our wonderful government and FDA and the pharmaceutical industry that all work together and not for our good but all for their huge profit.
If small farmers would just make the right political contributions they would not have these problems.
Or line obtusely arrogant people up and force feed them bullshit until they choke to death.
Regulators need to regulate themselves...
But you can't be just any geek off the street.. you gotta be handy with the steel, if ya know what i mean....
REGULATORRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSS... mount up
I am probably the only person who got that song reference.
so strange. most honey bought at the stores is pasteurized anyway and shit honey compared to pure raw honey with all the little "impurities" in it... fda needs to stop controlling everyone and only looking out of the "big guys"-- they're ruining so much!