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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:08PM
My mom was given the job of mixing the coloring into the margarine.
Not that margarine was any good, but if it were, we should have just gotten used to it being white. Food coloring is fraud. It mostly isn't even safe. We're on Red 40 now because 39 previous attempts caused cancer, and now we're finding that Red 40 is causing hyperactivity.
I guess I'm OK with calling something "milk" if all the nutrient amounts are within the ranges that you could find for real milk that humans actually drink. Humans drink from cattle, goats, camels, and humans. Every amino acid must be in the range by mass and by portion relative to the others. Salt, fat, iron, carbohydrates... all must be within the range.