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FDA May Force Rebranding of Soy, Almond, et al. "Milks"

posted by mrpg on Saturday July 21 2018, @01:07PM   
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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• Re:Cows are not the only animalsRe:Cows are not the only animals (Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday July 22 2018, @01:59PM (2 children)

  by looorg (578) on Sunday July 22 2018, @01:59PM (#710749)

  That is true as far as I know. Before Greece got all up in arms about it and made Feta a protected name/product (or whatever the correct terminology for it is) there was others. They, the "fake-feta", are still available but they are now, here, called "salad cheese" instead. They are as far as I know made from cow-milk but they look about the same. They have a milder less salty taste compared to the real thing and are softer in texture. It's as the name suggests fairly commonly here used in salads and kebabs and such things. Overall tho I eat mostly hard cheeses so I'm really doubling down on the cow-milk all around I guess.

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• Re:Cows are not the only animalsRe:Cows are not the only animals (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday July 22 2018, @03:30PM (1 child)

  by janrinok (52) on Sunday July 22 2018, @03:30PM (#710778) Journal

  The following popular cheese are all made from non-bovine milk if they are genuine:

  • Manchego
  • Feta
  • Buffalo mozzarella
  • Lebbene
  • Humboldt Fog
  • Halloumi
  • Pecorino
  • Tzfat
  • Roquefort

  I am sure that there are many others, but non-bovine milk and cheese is nowhere near as rare as many people think it is.

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  • Re:Cows are not the only animals(Score: 2) by KritonK on Monday July 23 2018, @07:55AM

    by KritonK (465) on Monday July 23 2018, @07:55AM (#711101)

    Not to mention Venezuelan beaver cheese [wikipedia.org]...

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