More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.
More than a dozen food companies have urged the European Commission not to ban the use of words such as “sausage” and “burger” for non-meat products.
The problem with being more permissive with naming is that the realistic outcome is simply gonna be that companies take the chance to deliver cheaper quality at the expense of the consumer.
Like, if the requirement that milk actually has to be cow milk is loosened, what’s stopping the companies from just mixing the cow milk with water and selling that as “milk”?
No one is planning to loosen any current rules, this is about a new law, that would ban names like soy milk.
At least in Germany, even without the new ban, it was not allowed to call anything but cow milk simply “milk” without any prefix, and what you can add to cow milk is already regulated (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milch-_und_Fettgesetz). Is it different where you live and currently milk is often watered down?
If law wasn’t decided by a complicated system of books and men wearing tunics but by popular democracy, it would be obvious and would need no technicality that watering down milk would be illegal and selling almond milk as almond milk would be legal.
what if the almond milk is watered down?
i’m asking because it almost always is
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