Government urged to legally protect dairy terms for both consumers and producers

UK politicians have been urged to follow EU law to ensure dairy terms are protected from manufacturers of plant-based products which trade under dairy names and use dairy values to sell products but ‘have very little in common with dairy at all’

Olivia Midgley
Editorial Director
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Government urged to legally protect dairy terms for both consumers and producers

Speaking at its annual dinner at the site of Churchill's War Rooms in Whitehall, London, Dairy UK chairman Paul Vernon said ‘all products should be playing with a straight bat when it comes to representing...

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