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Exhibit 591

Sucrose and Health: A Brief Submitted by the International Sugar Research Foundation to the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs

Exhibit 591 · Industry submission printed in a Senate committee print

Sucrose and Health: A Brief Submitted by the International Sugar Research Foundation to the Select Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs

"The Report" is misleading and will compound the confusion it intends to dispel

Industry brief, pp. 685-696 of the Supplemental Views (committee print, November 1977), objecting to the sucrose portions of the first edition. States that the ISRF was incorporated in 1968 as successor to the Sugar Research Foundation (founded 1943), with members in nine countries, and that it spends about $100,000 a year on research.

Source
International Sugar Research Foundation, in Dietary Goals for the United States: Supplemental Views
Date
1977
Quoted from
'General' paragraph, brief p. 685
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/CAT78698154
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
The submitter is the ISRF, not the Sugar Association.

Cited by

Finding AGR-2.7
Primary record In 1977 the International Sugar Research Foundation, successor to the Sugar Research Foundation, submitted a brief to the Select Committee stating that the first edition of Dietary Goals was “misleading” and “not based on scientific evidence.”