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posted by mrpg on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:07PM   Printer-friendly
from the moo dept.

Soon, your soy milk may not be called 'milk'

Soy and almond drinks that bill themselves as "milk" may need to consider alternative language after a top regulator suggested the agency may start cracking down on use of the term.

The Food and Drug Administration signaled plans to start enforcing a federal standard that defines "milk" as coming from the "milking of one or more healthy cows." That would be a change for the agency, which has not aggressively gone after the proliferation of plant-based drinks labeled as "milk."

FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb talked about the plans this week, noting there are hundreds of federal "standards of identity" spelling out how foods with various names need to be manufactured.

"The question becomes, have we been enforcing our own standard of identity," Gottlieb said about "milk" at the Politico event Tuesday. "The answer is probably not."


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  • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:30AM (5 children)

    by KritonK (465) on Sunday July 22 2018, @10:30AM (#710708)

    In Greece, too, where you can find goat's milk at the super market. It's quite expensive (about double the price of cow's milk), but I'm told it is much better for children, as it is closer to mother's milk than cow's milk. And yes, you can also find ass's milk, which is even closer, but at outrageous prices (about 12€ for a 100 ml jar).

    I buy my cheese at the store of a local dairy, and I think that all their cheeses are made from a mixture of goat's and sheep's milk or goat's milk alone. As these milks are more fatty than cow's milk (especially sheep's milk), cheese made from them is much richer than cheese made from cow's milk, so a small amount will go a long way.

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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday July 22 2018, @11:51AM (4 children)

    by looorg (578) on Sunday July 22 2018, @11:51AM (#710720)

    As noted they don't sell that milk up here in the north, Sweden. We do get all the cheese tho, feta would be one that comes to mind (both real and fake once) and as far as I can recall that is goat/sheep or some combo. Donkey milk, that sounds kind of interesting.

    • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Sunday July 22 2018, @01:53PM (3 children)

      by KritonK (465) on Sunday July 22 2018, @01:53PM (#710745)

      If it's the real thing, feta cheese must be made using a mixture of sheep and goat's milk. It must also be made in Greece, so the fake version cannot be called feta, even if it is better. (I don't know, but I wouldn't be surprised: I prefer Danablu to Roquefort, e.g. I also wouldn't be surprised if all white rennet cheese is called feta outside Greece, EU regulations be damned: whenever I ask for Danablu at the supermarket, I have to explain that I want "Danish Roquefort".)

      • (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday July 22 2018, @01:59PM (2 children)

        by looorg (578) on Sunday July 22 2018, @01:59PM (#710749)

        That is true as far as I know. Before Greece got all up in arms about it and made Feta a protected name/product (or whatever the correct terminology for it is) there was others. They, the "fake-feta", are still available but they are now, here, called "salad cheese" instead. They are as far as I know made from cow-milk but they look about the same. They have a milder less salty taste compared to the real thing and are softer in texture. It's as the name suggests fairly commonly here used in salads and kebabs and such things. Overall tho I eat mostly hard cheeses so I'm really doubling down on the cow-milk all around I guess.

        • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday July 22 2018, @03:30PM (1 child)

          by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday July 22 2018, @03:30PM (#710778) Journal

          The following popular cheese are all made from non-bovine milk if they are genuine:

          • Manchego
          • Feta
          • Buffalo mozzarella
          • Lebbene
          • Humboldt Fog
          • Halloumi
          • Pecorino
          • Tzfat
          • Roquefort

          I am sure that there are many others, but non-bovine milk and cheese is nowhere near as rare as many people think it is.