The Western Sugar Cooperative, Michigan Sugar Co. and C&H Sugar Company Inc. are asking the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to end the campaign and order corrective advertising.

 The Corn Refiners Association is seeking permission from the federal government to use the new name on food labels.

 In the meantime, it launched a major marketing campaign to promote the concept. However, the sugar industry says the campaign constitutes false advertising.

 The lawsuit argues high-fructose corn syrup cannot be marketed as a natural product equivalent to sugar.

From the May 2, 2011, Prepared Foods' Daily News.