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FDA May Force Rebranding of Soy, Almond, et al. "Milks"

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

takyon writes:

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: 3, Funny) by takyon on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:31PM (6 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:31PM (#710405) Journal

    Maybe they'll define all large mammals as cows.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:34PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:34PM (#710407)

    In that case, I am already ahead of them in this classification. I also classify sufficiently large mammals as whales.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:52PM (#710461)

    ...and they are also spherical...

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @09:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @09:38PM (#710579)

    I don't think what will go over well with human females.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:07PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:07PM (#710585)

    66 REDEFINE LARGE-MAMMAL AS COW

    I wish I could have posted that as a punch-card.
    We can take it as 100% safe bet that the top regulator expert is (cough) sponsored by the Dairy Industry.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:25PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:25PM (#710595)

      Ah, you can go play at http://www.masswerk.at/keypunch/ [masswerk.at]

  • (Score: 1) by noneof_theabove on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:19PM

    by noneof_theabove (6189) on Saturday July 21 2018, @10:19PM (#710588)

    I already have.
    Live in a county in Tejas with the highest insurance rates for autos, highest teen birth rate, highest rate of diabetes and
    the most overweight [cows].

    The are 11 year old boys running around that back in the 60's when I grew would have had to wear a bra.