Created in 1986, to “serve as a clearinghouse for information on aspartame and to defend the sweetener from attacks.” Original funders included Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, General Foods, and the NutraSweet Group. (Food Chemical News, 1/20/86, p.2)

“IFIC is supported by the following companies from the broad-based food, beverage and agricultural industry:”

• Ross Products Division/Abbott Laboratories
• Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc.
• Jack In The Box
• BASF Corporation
• Nutrinova Inc.
• Archer Daniels Midland Company and Dannon Company Inc.
• Unilever United States Inc.
• Cultor Food Science, Inc.
• The NutraSweet Kelco Company
• Nabisco, Inc.
• Monsanto Company
• McDonald’s Corporation
• Kraft Foods
• M&M/Mars
• McNeil Specialty Products Co.
• Nestle USA, Inc.
• The Pepsi-Cola Company
• The Procter & Gamble Company
• Zeneca Plant Science
• Hershey Foods Corporation
• Gerber Products Company
• Frito-Lay, Inc.
• Campbell Soup Company
• The Coca-Cola Company
• ARCO Chemical Company
• Ajinomoto U.S.A., Inc.
• Best Foods
• DuPont Agricultural Products
• General Mills, Inc.
• H.J. Heinz Company
• Kellogg USA Inc.

(IFIC, undated, received prior to 1999)

IFIC Foundation Board of Trustees, 2001:

• Daniel B. Dennison, Ph.D. Coca-Cola Company
• John. F Manfredi Nabisco, Inc.
• Michael S. Mudd Kraft Foods
• John T. Gould Jr. Unilever
• Fergus M. Clydesdale, Ph.D. Department of Food Science University of Massachusetts
• Sharon M. Friedman, M.A. Department of Journalism and Communications Lehigh University
• Jeanne P. Goldberg, Ph.D. School of Nutrition Science and Policy Tufts University
• George M. Gray, Ph.D. Center for Risk Analysis Harvard School of Public Health
• Nancy Wellman, Ph.D. Department of Dietetics and Nutrition Florida International University

(IFIC Form 990, 2001; on file at CSPI)

IFIC Foundation Board of Trustees, 1995-1996:

• Nancy Wellman, Ph.D., RD, Professor
  National Center on Nutrition and Aging
  Florida International University, Miami
  Chair
• Sharon M. Friedman, MA
  Iacocca Professor and Director of the Science & Environment Writing Program
  Dept. of Journalism and Communications
  Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
  Vice-chair
• John F. Manfredi
  Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs
  Nabisco, Inc.
  Secretary
• Fergus M. Clydesdale, Ph.D.
  Professor and Department Head, Department of Food Science
  University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  Treasurer
• Sharon Coleman, Director
  Communications and Information Programs
  Scientific and Regulatory Affairs
  The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta
• Jeanne P. Goldberg, Ph.D., RD, Associate Professor
  School of Nutrition Science and Policy
  Tufts University
• John D. Graham, Ph.D.
  Director, Center for Risk Analysis
  Professor of Policy and Decision Sciences
  Harvard School of Public Health
• Michael S. Mudd
  Vice President of Corporate Affairs
  Kraft Foods
• Maureen Storey, Ph.D.
  Director, Nutrition Marketing
  Kellogg USA Inc. (1999: at Georgetown University Center for Food and Nutrition Policy)