Almond drink? Soy juice? Some lawmakers want to crack down on what can be sold as ‘milk’
By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., The Washington Post
Published: December 26, 2016, 6:00am
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Call it the war on milk, or perhaps the war on what’s not milk.
In the latest salvo in a nearly two-decades-old fight over what should and shouldn’t be called milk, a group of more than 20 U.S. legislators sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration demanding it require the makers of soy milk, almond milk and rice milk to drop “milk” from the label of anything that doesn’t come directly from an animal.
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