October 21, 2020
“The FDA is currently accepting public comments about how it can improve the nutrition labeling of sweeteners that aren’t metabolized by the body in the same way as sugar found in foods and beverages.
The agency established this new docket largely in response to a petition filed in June by the Sugar Association, which requested several changes to labels of products containing alternative sweeteners. More specifically, the industry’s science group wanted the FDA to provide consumers with more transparency about which alternative sweeteners are included in products, as well as the amounts.
With food manufacturers increasingly shifting toward using less traditional sugar in products, the docket’s introduction is timely.”
Read the full article at: https://www.eatthis.com/fda-food-beverage-labels-alternative-sweeteners/
January 10, 2026
The health secretary’s new dietary guidelines tell parents to cut the added sugar until their kids turn 11. “Misleading rhetoric “declaring war” on and creating unsubstantiated fear about a real ingredient like real sugar will not improve children’s health,” said Courtney Gaine, the association’s president and CEO, in a statement. “Real sugar — which comes […]
December 4, 2025
"Aimee Soller with the Sugar Association was elected president of the Home Baking Association at the advocacy group’s annual meeting and milling industry veterans Robert Harper and Mike Leddige were elected vice presidents for 2026.”
December 2, 2025
“The American Sugarbeet Growers Association will hold its annual meeting Jan. 26-28 in Indian Wells, California. The agenda is full of topics important to the sugar industry and agriculture at large. Among the planned speakers are the following: Dr. Courtney Gaine, Ph.D., president and CEO of The Sugar Association, on “Dynamics in the U.S. Sugar […]
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