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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: 2, Interesting) by exaeta on Saturday July 21 2018, @04:39PM
11th Circuit already ruled that truthful advertising can't be regulated by government per Reed v. Gilbert.
On these grounds, I don't think they can stop you from selling "goat milk" and it's questionable if they cab regulate "soymilk" this late given that it has been used so frequently.
"Soy Milk" has already been accepted into the dictionary:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soy%20milk [merriam-webster.com]
They can maybe stop you from just calling it "milk" without specifying though, but at this point it's unclear.
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