FDA Asks for More Comments on 'Evaporated Cane Juice' Labeling on Food

The Food and Drug Administration is reopening the comment period until May 5 on a proposal to ban companies from listing solid or dried sugar cane syrup as “evaporated cane juice.” FDA had in 2009 requested comments on a draft guidance that would have set the name for solid or dried sugar cane syrup as “dried cane syrup” instead of “evaporated cane juice” on food labels, because the latter falsely suggests the sweetener is juice. FDA said it is now asking for more comments on the issue because it hasn’t yet decided what the name on food labels should be.