The FDA is concerned mainly with the healthfulness of what people put in their mouths, and it seems unlikely that either of the new procedures will yield something that is unsafe to eat.
The study says that small doses of oral sucrose do not reduce the pain which a baby feels when its heel is pricked toyield a blood sample or it has a drip put in to receive antibiotics.
If the limits put forth are real but the parties share a mutual desire to reach a compromise, then a collaborative exercise in problem-solving will usually yield an agreeable outcome.