Exhibit 594

Big sugar's "thuggish" tactics come under fire

Exhibit 594 · Press release

Big sugar's "thuggish" tactics come under fire

Sugar Association president Andrew C. Briscoe III wrote that the association would ask “Congressional appropriators to challenge future funding of the U.S.’s $406 million contributions” to the WHO.

Advocacy-group release that quotes the Sugar Association's letter to WHO Director-General Brundtland: the association would ask Congress to challenge future funding of the U.S. contribution of $406 million, and attached a letter from Senators Larry Craig (R-ID) and John Breaux (D-LA) to two cabinet secretaries. Says copies of the letters were available from CSPI.

Source: Center for Science in the Public Interest
Date: 21 April 2003
Quoted from: CSPI press release, updated 21 Apr. 2003, paragraph 3
Grade: Reported
Document: https://www.cspinet.org/new/200304211.html
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Reported, advocacy source. Ask CSPI for the letters (contact named in the release) to replace this exhibit.

Cited by

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.