NMPF leadership remains committed to achieving passage of Dairy Pride Act
The act would force FDA to take action on ‘mislabeled dairy imitators.’
At the National Milk Producers Federation’s (NMPF) annual meeting, held Oct. 30-Nov. 1 in in Anaheim, Calif., NMPF President and CEO Jim Mulhern told the organization that he remains committed to achieving passage in Congress of the Dairy Pride Act (DPA), “legislation in the Senate and House that would require FDA to enforce existing food labeling standards and prevent misbranded plant-based imitators from appropriating federally defined dairy terms on their labels.”
The Senate bill, S. 130, was introduced in January by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. The companion House bill, H.R. 778, was introduced later that month by Reps. Peter Welch, D-Vt.; Sean Duffy, R-Wis.; Mike Simpson, R-Idaho: Joe Courtney, D-Conn.; David Valadao, R-Calif.; and Suzan DelBene, D-Wash.