FDA allows sucralose health claim.(NEWS)

Candy Business, March, 2006

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has amended regulations in Sec. 101.80, to authorize a health claim regarding noncariogenic carbohydrate sweeteners to include sucralose. The action comes in response to a filing last year by McNeil Nutritionals LLC to include the non-nutritive sweetener in the list of substances authorized to bear the claim.

As a result of the action, products formulated with sucrose can now be labeled: "Frequent eating of foods high in sugars and starches as between-meal snacks can promote tooth decay. Sucralose, the sweetening ingredient used to sweeten this food, unlike sugars, does not promote tooth decay."