Exhibit 592

Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (WHO Technical Report Series 916)

Exhibit 592 · International report

Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases (WHO Technical Report Series 916)

The Consultation recognized that a population goal for free sugars of less than 10% of total energy is controversial.

Joint expert consultation report (Geneva, 28 January-1 February 2002; published 2003). Table 6 sets a population goal for free sugars of under 10 percent of total energy. The text on free sugars says the goal is controversial and defends it by citing limits in studies that found no effect on weight.

Source: World Health Organization and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Date: 2003
Quoted from: Chapter 5, 'Free sugars', p. 56 (Table 6, p. 55)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/924120916X
Accessed: 2026-11-09
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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.