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Ongoing: The Definition of Natural

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Not really sure how the people at Cadbury Schweppes thought they could pass 7UP off as "100% natural"...Now they've got a CSPI lawsuit to swallow.

“Pretending that soda made with high fructose corn syrup is ‘all natural,’ is just plain old deception,” said CSPI executive director Michael F. Jacobson. “High fructose corn syrup isn’t something you could cook up from a bushel of corn in your kitchen, unless you happen to be equipped with centrifuges, hydroclones, ion-exchange columns, and buckets of enzymes.” (read more)

 

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commentmrpho said:
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Hmmm -- is this a legal play on 1. total lack of definition of the word "natural" (aside from meats), or 2. resentment over the corporate instinct to associate its product with a label that implies "good" food?

I suspect it's mostly #2 -- and if so, then I'm not sure why CSPI doesn't go after Heinz' much-touted "Organic Ketchup" -- packed with as much (Organic) sugar as a Coke 12-pack! found at this URL:

http://tinyurl.com/names

June 19, 2006 6:10 PM
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