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France bans 'steak' and 'escalope' labels from vegetarian products (www.france24.com)

submitted 8 months ago by CAVOK@lemmy.world to c/europe@feddit.de

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The French government issued a decree Tuesday banning the term "steak" on the label of vegetarian products, saying it was reserved for meat alone.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

It's just the standard intersection between domestic and EU law when it comes to food labelling.

E.g. if you want to sell stuff in Germany as beer that isn't beer according to German law then you can't brew it in Germany, it has to be imported and thus fall under common market rules.