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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: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Saturday July 21 2018, @05:52PM
The last time I read about this, the submission didn't say anything about cows, though it did say "milking".
FWIW, having looked at the protein levels of the various things called "almond milk", "soy milk", etc. I think that they *should* be renamed to prevent consumer fraud. Some of them have quite low levels of protein. Some seem to be sugar beverages disguised as something nutritional.
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