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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."
(Score: 1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @02:33PM (1 child)
First off, soy milk is not a healthy drink. Second off, in no sense of the word are these milks real substitutes for actual milk. They sort of work kind of.
The problem is that people who don't have allergies may not know how to read the label, especially if the soy is on the previous line from milk making it easy to miss.really, this should have been done years ago as most food recalls involve Allergens rather than things dangerous to the public as a whole.
Especially given the increased prevalence and severity of food allergies. Not to mention the "brilliant" vegans that use it in baby formula.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:38PM
SOY BOYS! SOY BOYS! ESTROGEN!