Soy Milk Isn’t “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.â€