50) The Committee recalled that the Proposed Draft Amendment had been adopted at Step 5 by the 23rd Session of the Commission. Following the request of the last session of the CCFL, the Committee on Milk and Milk Products had considered the class name for milk protein products and had proposed the following definition:
Milk Protein Products: Milk products containing a minimum of 35% (m/m) of any type(s) of milk protein. If the content exceeds 50% (m/m), the word ‘product’ may be omitted.
51) Some delegations supported this proposal. However, several other delegations supported the definition of a single category of milk protein, as agreed by the last session, and pointed out that the term ‘milk protein’ should not be used for products containing only 50% milk protein since this would be misleading for consumers. The Delegation of Portugal, speaking on behalf of the Member States of the European Union, proposed that the Committee should go back to the earlier proposal for a single class name for ‘‘milk protein” as initially defined in part 2 of Appendix IX, ALINORM 99/22. Other delegations proposed to refer to 30% instead of 35% milk protein as a minimum, or to define different levels of protein content, as in the case of fat content, such as low, medium and high.
52) The Committee recognized that there was no consensus to advance the definition of ‘milk protein/milk protein product’ to Step 8 and agreed that the text considered by the last session of the CCFL should be further discussed.
Status of the Draft Amendment to the General Standard for the Labelling of Prepackaged Foods (Class Names)
53) The Committee agreed to return the Draft Amendment, as proposed by the last session, to Step 6 for further comments and consideration at the next session (see Appendix VI).
