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Exhibit 593

Sugar Lobbyists Sour On Study

Exhibit 593 ยท Journalism

Sugar Lobbyists Sour On Study

One request was March 20 from a coalition of food industry groups, another March 28 from two U.S. senators, John Breaux, D-La., Larry Craig, R-Idaho.

Reports that Sugar Association president Andrew Briscoe wrote the WHO director general attacking the report; that HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson was asked to intervene, in one request on 20 March 2003 from a coalition of food industry groups and another on 28 March from Senators John Breaux (D-LA) and Larry Craig (R-ID), co-chairs of the Senate Sweetener Caucus; that the senators also wrote Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman; and that Thompson did not respond before the 23 April release.

Source
Associated Press, via CBS News
Date
23 April 2003
Quoted from
AP via CBS News, 23 Apr. 2003, paragraph beginning 'Many governments, including the United States'
Grade
Reported
Document
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sugar-lobbyists-sour-on-study
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Note
CBS News hosts the AP wire text, not AP's own site. The Briscoe letter, the coalition letter and the Craig-Breaux letter are not online.

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Finding AGR-2.9
Reported The 2003 WHO/FAO report on diet and chronic disease set a population goal of under 10 percent of energy from free sugars and described that goal as controversial. In March and April 2003, according to AP, CSPI and the Guardian, the Sugar Association's president wrote to WHO that the association would ask Congress to challenge U.S. funding, a food-industry coalition asked HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson to intervene on 20 March, and Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and John Breaux (D-LA) made a further request to Thompson on 28 March. AP also reports that the senators wrote Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman.