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Two powerful dairy organizations, The International Dairy Foods
Association (IDFA) and the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF), are
petitioning the Food and Drug Administration to allow aspartame and other
artificial sweeteners to be added to milk and other dairy products without a
label.
The FDA currently allows the dairy industry to
use "nutritive sweeteners" including sugar and high fructose corn
syrup in many of their products. Nutritive sweeteners are defined as sweeteners
with calories.
This petition officially seeks to amend the
standard of identification for milk, cream, and 17 other dairy products like
yogurt, sweetened condensed milk, sour cream, and others to provide for the use
of any "safe and suitable sweetener" on the market.
They claim that aspartame and other artificial
sweeteners would promote healthy eating and is good for school children.
According to the FDA notice issued this week:
IDFA and NMPF state that the proposed
amendments would promote more healthful eating practices and reduce childhood
obesity by providing for lower-calorie flavored milk products. They state that
lower-calorie flavored milk would particularly benefit school children who,
according to IDFA and NMPF, are more inclined to drink flavored milk than unflavored
milk at school.
Although the FDA considers aspartame to be a
"safe and suitable" sweetener, a recent Yale University
The IDFA and NMPF argue "that the
proposed amendments to the milk standard of identity would promote honesty and
fair dealing in the marketplace" yet they don't want changes to the labels
on dairy products.
Accordingly, the petitioners state that milk
flavored with non-nutritive sweeteners should be labeled as milk without
further claims so that consumers can “more easily identify its overall
nutritional value.”
It's unclear how consumers can more easily
identify the overall nutritional value of milk products that are flavored with
non-nutritive sweeteners without labels.
Quoting Section 130.10 of the Nutrition
Labeling and Education Act of 1990, the dairy giants claim a new label is not
required because sugar is added to milk without labeling it, and "the
modified food is not inferior in performance" and "'reduced calorie'
(labels) are not attractive to children" so marketing as such is of no
benefit or detriment.
The FDA has opened public comments until May
21 for anyone interested to "submit comments, data, and information
concerning the need for, and the appropriateness of, amending the standard of
identity for milk and the additional dairy standards."
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