Rebecca Cross, Greenfare Law: Labeling plant-based milks
Rebecca Cross, founding partner, Greenfare Law: The most relevant issue for my practice will be the FDA’s possible upcoming guidance regarding labeling of plant-based milks. It will be interesting to see whether the FDA truly 'modernizes' its approach to standards of identity (as it suggested back in 2018) by re-affirming the position it has held for the past 50 years: that standardized names can be used on foods that are not, in all respects, the standardized foods. It would be sort of tragic for the FDA to reverse course at this time when innovation in the food industry is so crucial to the health of our planet... and of course, that would be subject to legal challenge...
