Milk producers want the government to stop soy milk and other items such as yogurt from being labeled with names borrowed from dairy products. “The FDA has allowed the meaning of milk to be watered down to the point where many products that use the term have never seen the inside of a barn,” said Jerry Kozak, president and CEO of the National Milk Producers Federation. This is the second attempt by the group to get the labeling changed. The first occurred in 2000 during the last year of the Clinton administration. (Des Moines Register) Read more.
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