Aspartame in Milk Without a Label? Big Dairy Petitions FDA For Approvalselfnews Post The FDA currently allows the dairy industry to use nutritive sweeteners including sugar and high fructose corn syrup in many of their products. Nutritive sweeteners are defined as sweeteners with calories. This petition officially seeks to amend the standard of identification for milk, cream, and 17 other dairy products like yogurt, sweetened condensed milk, sour cream, and others to provide for the use of any safe and suitable sweetener on the market. They claim that aspartame and other artificial sweeteners would promote healthy eating and is good for school children. According to the FDA noticeissued this week: The IDFA and NMPF argue that the proposed amendments to the milk standard of identity would promote honesty and fair dealing in the marketplace yet they dont want changes to the labels on dairy products. Its unclear how consumers can more easily identify the overall nutritional value of milk products that are flavored with non-nutritive sweeteners without labels. QuotingSection 130.10 of the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act of 1990, the dairy giants claim a new label is not required because sugar is added to milk without labeling it, and the modified food is not inferior in performance and reduced calorie (labels) are not attractive to children so marketing as such is of no benefit or detriment. The FDA has opened public comments until May 21 for anyone interested to submit comments, data, and information concerning the need for, and the appropriateness of, amending the standard of identity for milk and the additional dairy standards. To submit a formal comment or send data to the FDA concerning adding aspartame and other artificial sweeteners to milk products CLICK HERE. 