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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: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @03:16PM (#710440)

    Goat milk is extracted from goats, and soy milk is extracted from soy, so baby milk is...?

    This kind of thing was a problem for Gerber's baby food in Africa. Cans of food sold in Africa normally have pictures of the food. (picture of corn on a can of corn, picture of green beans on a can of green beans, etc.) Gerber baby food had pictures of babies.

    Admittedly, "baby formula" isn't much better. It sounds like something used to create babies. Eeeeeew. I'm not feeding THAT to my baby.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:17PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:17PM (#710490)

    It sounds like something used to create babies. Eeeeeew. I'm not feeding THAT to my baby.

    But, it has everything a growing baby needs... :0