EU removes limits on HGFS production/use

[phoenix]

In Europe, up until now there has been a quota which effectively limited the use of grain syrups in European foods . This means there hasn't been enough to use in things like fizzy drinks. These drinks, unlike those in the US, tend to be sweetened with sugar rather than high glucose fructose syrup (isoglucose)
This quota is being lifted from 2017 thus allowing far more use of them. There's been a huge amount of lobbying about this from the starch industry in Europe and the date has been brought forward from an originally proposed 2020.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/07/0 ... FP20130709

NB Fortunately, there are still labelling laws and on things that are nutritionally labelled then they have to appear on that label.(some things don't have to be, including (I think) confectionery and some biscuits)

glucose syrups (including dried glucose syrups) which contain more than 5 % of fructose (dry matter) must be labelled as ‘glucose-fructose syrup’ or ‘fructose-glucose syrup’ and ‘dried glucose-fructose syrup’ or ‘dried fructose-glucose syrup’, to reflect whether the glucose component or the fructose component is in greater proportion

http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/ ... 130_en.htm ie fructose-glucose has a higher percentage of fructose, glucose-fructose has a higher percentage of glucose.

And of course, whether HGFS sweetened drinks are actually any worse than sugar sweetened ones is open to question.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/high-f ... up/AN01588