WITH manufacturers facing mounting pressure to reduce sugar content or risk higher production costs under Jamaica’s new sugar tax regime, Caribbean Flavours and Fragrances (CFF) is making efforts to help local companies reformulate products while preserving consumer appeal.

The company hosted a sugar reduction seminar on Wednesday at Derrimon Trading Company’s headquarters in Kingston, where clients and other manufacturers were introduced to ingredient technologies aimed at cutting sugar levels, reducing tax liabilities and keeping products competitively priced on store shelves.

Trovis Garnett, quality assurance supervisor at Lasco Manufacturing Limited, examines the aroma of a reformulated beverage.(Photo: Garfield Robinson)