March 21, 2012
Attorneys for Archer Daniels Midland Co. and four other high-fructose corn syrup producers asked a California federal judge Wednesday to throw out allegations that they conspired to deceptively rebrand corn syrup as natural, saying they cannot be held liable for advertisements put out by their trade association.
November 21, 2011
Sugar cane and sugar beet growers lodged a new complaint Friday over an alleged conspiracy to deceptively rename corn syrup as "corn sugar," bringing individual corn syrup producers including Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Cargill Inc. back into a suit they'd escaped in October.
September 13, 2011
A corn industry trade association fought sugar producers' false advertising claims in California federal court Tuesday, arguing that ads attempting to rebrand high fructose corn syrup as a natural alternative to sugar are protected under the First Amendment.