McNeil Nutritionals, Fort Washington, a division of McNeil-PPC Inc., says its Splenda[r] No Calorie Sweetener has become the top-selling low/no-calorie sweetener in United States retail outlets just two and a half years after its introduction.
A taxpayer-funded program to help dairy farmers cope with slumping milk prices will likely cost billions of dollars more than expected, from an original cost of $1.3 billion to a new estimate of as much as $4 billion, a federal official said last month.
Dairy industry representatives are taking aim at European dairy subsidies, lobbying Congress to push for a crackdown on these subsidies in the continuing round of World Trade Organization (WTO) talks on agriculture.