An association of corn refiners spent about $135 million on a campaign to defend high fructose corn syrup from perceived attacks by the U.S. sugar industry, an executive from Archer Daniels Midland Co testified in court on Monday. Several sugar refiners including global leader ASR Group sued in 2011, alleging that a Corn Refiners Association ad campaign describing high fructose corn syrup as "corn sugar" and "natural" was false.
