Sweetening high fructose corn syrup's image

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor: The folks who make high fructose corn syrup would like it to be known by another name, corn sugar. The industry wants to stop the confusion, as they put it, over the sweetener, specifically the perception it's somehow more harmful than ordinary sugar. They say what they produce has been disparaged and misunderstood. The federal government is making its own decision on the name, what to call it.

Sweetening high fructose corn syrup's image

Corn Refiners have petitioned the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to change the name of the much maligned sweetener. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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