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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) by kazzie on Sunday July 22 2018, @02:46PM (2 children)
Goats' milk is now commonly sold in most UK supermarkets, and also some convenience stores. There are two main suppliers, and they both offer it the UK's three standard fat-content varieties (skimmed, (0.1%), semi-skimmed (2%), and whole (3%).
Rewind two or three decades, and you could only buy it from the sort of specialist food shops you'd find in larger towns/cities (whole milk only, in bulk, frozen).
(Score: 2) by looorg on Sunday July 22 2018, @03:50PM (1 child)
So what explains the, somewhat, fairly rapid increase from a specialist item to a "common" item? It can't all be milk hipsters.
(Score: 2) by kazzie on Sunday July 22 2018, @04:58PM
I'm not sure I can tell you the cause of the rise, but I can tell you that my wife (who has an intolerance to cow's milk' but is fine with goat's) is glad of its availability. Her mother didn't enjoy pushing a pram-load of milk across the city for her when she was a baby/toddler.