[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2673]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           TRUTH IN LABELING

  (Mr. WELCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELCH. Mr. Speaker, this is pure Vermont maple syrup made at a 
family farm, Maverick Farm, by friends and neighbors Arthur and Anne 
Berndt. People love it. Sugar makers from Maine to Michigan, it is a 
labor of love and real additional income in small farm economies.
  Big companies have figured that out. They know that consumers love 
maple syrup. But instead of buying maple syrup from those farmers, they 
provide fake labels to mislead consumers. These are some of the biggest 
companies in the world.
  Take a look at some of these companies and the products that they 
claim have maple in them. Quaker, Kellogg's, Hood, Bakery on Main. They 
say they have maple, but there is not a trace of maple in it. The 
ingredients include rice syrup, artificial flavor, caramel color, 
gelatin, molasses. That is not maple syrup.
  We who represent farmers producing maple syrup are writing the FDA 
telling them to have truth in labeling. Let's have real syrup, not fake 
labels.

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