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Article: WEEKLY FARM: Kellogg, consumer advocates clash over Raisin Bran
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JANELLE CARTER AP Farm Writer
AP Online
10-10-1998
WASHINGTON (AP) _ A congressman wants government researchers to take a look at rules limiting the sugar content of food aid for poor mothers and their children. Consumer advocates are incensed at what they see is a boondoggle for Kellogg's Raisin Bran.
Outgoing Rep. Vic Fazio, D-Calif., added an amendment to the agriculture spending bill moving through Congress that finances a $300,000 study by the National Academy of Sciences on the sugar limitations in the agency's Women, Infants and Children nutrition program.
Primarily, the study is to determine whether the natural sugar of raisins should count towards a WIC limit of 6 grams of ...