PepsiCo, Inc. has announced an ambitious global sustainability agenda, with goals ranging from reducing the amount of sugar in its products, to helping women and girls around the world.
Health officials in New York propose including a warning label on menu items with too much sodium, while San Francisco get closer to requiring warnings on sugar-sweetened beverage ads.
A new guideline from the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that adults and children should reduce their daily sugar intake to less than 10 percent of their overall calories, with additional health benefits realized if sugar intake was limited to under 5 percent.
After months of negotiations the United States and Mexico have reached a settlement over U.S. accusations that Mexico is dumping sugar, to the detriment of U.S. sugar producers. Phillip Hayes, a spokesman for the American Sugar Alliance, says the agreement will help both sugar producers and consumers.