What’s the FDA connection between 🌽 field corn 🌽and 🐟 frozen seafood 🐟?

FDA just revoked the canned field corn food standard and also reshared its results from analyzing frozen seafood. What’s the connect?

Both are about economic adulteration (also known as food fraud).

There has never really been a market for canned field corn in the United States, but FDA created the standard to help prevent food fraud. Field corn is a tough corn primarily used for animal feed or processing, as compared to sweet corn, which is commonly used for eating.

But sometimes field corn was used and labeled simply as “corn.” FDA created the standard to strengthen its position that only sweet corn can be labeled as “corn.”

While the food standard is gone, presumably FDA’s position is the same.