May 30/Washington/The Republic -- The Food and Drug Administration rejected the Corn Refiners Association's bid to rename high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) as "corn sugar." Given the sweetener's bad reputation in recent years, the association submitted an application to the agency in 2010 to have the product renamed on nutrition labels.
However, the FDA said it defines sugar as a solid, dried and crystallized food -- not a syrup.