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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, Touché) by khallow on Sunday July 22 2018, @12:52AM (2 children)
I have a suggestion. Instead of calling it "milk", call it "almond milk" just like the producers do. Then you're not calling it "milk". Seriously, adjectives are here for a reason.
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Monday July 23 2018, @03:28AM (1 child)
"almond milk" is a noun cluster, not an adjective attached to a noun.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday July 23 2018, @05:01AM