The National Milk Producers Federation sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration regarding a lab-produced product that the federation calls fake “milk.”
A company called Bored Cow based in New York, calls its product milk, which the U.S. dairy industry says is completely false.
“They take water and add what we believe to be one unidentified, lab-engineered ‘whey protein’ along with a highly processed concoction of food additives, preservatives, oil, sugar, and several added vitamins, and claims it is ‘animal-free dairy milk,” says NMPF President and CEO Jim Mulhern.
“It’s baseless, absurd, and preposterous to call the resulting product ‘milk.’”
The federation has repeatedly called on FDA to enforce its identity standards for milk as plant-based fakes have proliferated.
