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posted by mrpg on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:07PM   Printer-friendly
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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."


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  • (Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Sunday July 22 2018, @04:39AM

    by AthanasiusKircher (5291) on Sunday July 22 2018, @04:39AM (#710668) Journal

    And when grocers start stocking milk of magnesia next to dairy milk and remove all the labeling that indicated milk of magnesia is a medication rather than a food... Maybe you'd have a point there.

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