Regulatory Watch

Sugar battle may ensue

American Sugar Alliance foresees fight over farm bill.

By Wayne Labs, Senior Contributing Technical Editor

The American Sugar Alliance foresees a major battle with food manufacturers when Congress takes up the Farm Bill again. The association, which represents sugar growers, expressed disappointment that the Farm Bill process must begin all over again after the clock ran out on 2012's efforts.

“As we did in 2012, we will face assaults from the food manufacturers, who would like to reduce or eliminate US sugar policy to enhance their access to subsidized world dump market sugar,” the trade group said on its website.

With sugar prices falling, the group says the gap between US and world sugar prices is “virtually non-existent.”

KEYWORDS: sugar

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Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.