{"id":21483,"date":"2023-07-17T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T14:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=21483"},"modified":"2023-06-15T13:38:58","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T17:38:58","slug":"texas-requires-labeling-of-plant-based-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2023\/07\/17\/texas-requires-labeling-of-plant-based-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"TEXAS REQUIRES LABELING OF PLANT-BASED FOODS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-15-at-13-35-52-Texas-requires-clear-labeling-of-plant-based-foods-starting-Sept.-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-15-at-13-35-52-Texas-requires-clear-labeling-of-plant-based-foods-starting-Sept.-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"289\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Effective September 1, 2023, in Texas, the law requires &#8220;plant-based or fermented analogs of meat, poultry, seafood and eggs to have a prominent label with type at least the same size as the text around it labeling products as \u201canalogue,\u201d \u201cmeatless,\u201d \u201cplant-based,\u201d \u201cmade from plants\u201d or with similar clarifying language. A similar requirement in the state law for cultivated meat requires that any food product made from harvesting animal cells replicated to produce tissue have a similar label. The bill suggests the label say \u201ccell-cultured,\u201d \u201clab-grown\u201d or similar language.&#8221; Apparently, most plant-based companies also want consumers to know their products are not meat.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newhope.com\/regulatory\/texas-requires-clear-labeling-plant-based-foods-starting-sept-1\">https:\/\/www.newhope.com\/regulatory\/texas-requires-clear-labeling-plant-based-foods-starting-sept-1<\/a><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective September 1, 2023, in Texas, the law requires &#8220;plant-based or fermented analogs of meat, poultry, seafood and eggs to have a prominent label with type at least the same size as the text around it labeling products as \u201canalogue,\u201d \u201cmeatless,\u201d \u201cplant-based,\u201d \u201cmade from plants\u201d or with similar clarifying language. A similar requirement in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21485,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21483\/revisions\/21485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}