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Article: Dutch court supports use of soy-milk name
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- Functional Foods & Nutraceuticals
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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EUROPE REGULATIONS
Soy milk's right to call itself soy milk may be closer to reality after a Dutch judge backed the term that has been banned from soy beverages in the European Union since 1987. The judge, whose verdict forced the Belgian-based soy giant Alpro to remove advertising that compared soy milk with dairy milk in the Netherlands, did not find fault with the term 'soya milk' despite the EU ban. In Europe, soy is known as soya.
Along with the Brussels-based European Natural Soyfood Manufacturers Association (ENSA), Alpro focused on this aspect of the ruling and hopes it will reinvigorate efforts to have the archaic law changed. The ENSA believes soy should be categorised with other ...