{"id":4888,"date":"2021-06-11T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T08:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2023-03-22T11:47:32","modified_gmt":"2023-03-22T10:47:32","slug":"european-parliament-allows-for-creamy-and-buttery-plant-based-dairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/2021\/06\/11\/european-parliament-allows-for-creamy-and-buttery-plant-based-dairy\/","title":{"rendered":"European Parliament allows for \u2018creamy\u2019 and \u2018buttery\u2019 plant-based dairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column offset=&#8221;vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8&#8243;][vc_column_text]Having voted 7 months earlier in favour of banning descriptive terms as \u2018buttery\u2019 and \u2018creamy\u2019 for purely plant-based products, the European Parliament withdrew draft legislation (the famous Amendment 171). .[\/vc_column_text]<style>.ld_spacer_69f50ac1046d2{height:35px;}@media (min-width: 992px) { .ld_spacer_69f50ac1046d2{height:55px};}<\/style>\n<div class=\"ld-empty-space ld_spacer_69f50ac1046d2\"><\/div>[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679482032658{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h4>Implications of Amendment 171 were that the following would be prohibited:<\/h4>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2022 Familiar packaging formats like a carton for plant-based milk alternatives, or a block of plant margarine;<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Visual depictions of plant-based foods if they could be judged as \u201cevoking\u201d or \u201cimitating\u201d dairy \u2013 for example, an image of a milky swirl on a package of oat drink;<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Science-based green claims that compare plant-based foods to dairy foods, like \u201chalf the carbon emissions of dairy butter,\u201d across all communications including digital and social media;<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Allergen information like \u201cdoes not contain milk;\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u2022 Descriptive terms like \u201ccreamy,\u201d \u201cbuttery\u201d, \u201cuse like cooking cream\u201d or \u201cvegan alternative to yoghurt;\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The major advocates for Amendment 171 belonged to the European diary industry. What exactly drove the Parliament to drop the draft legislation remains unclear, aside the growing resistance from plant-based makers and consumers. More than 450,000 consumers signed the public petition against the Amendment. Opponents also included WWF, Greenpeace, the European Consumer Organisation and Greta Thunberg.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column offset=&#8221;vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8&#8243;][vc_column_text]Having voted 7 months earlier in favour of banning descriptive terms as \u2018buttery\u2019 and \u2018creamy\u2019 for purely plant-based products, the European Parliament withdrew draft legislation (the famous Amendment 171). .[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1679482032658{margin-bottom: 35px !important;}&#8221;] Implications of Amendment 171 were that the following would be prohibited: [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] \u2022 Familiar packaging formats like a carton for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4909,"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foodlawscience.eu\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}