CHOCOLATE COMPANIES RECEIVE GLOBAL GUIDANCE ON TESTING FAT COMPOSITION
December 1st, 2010
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
IT sounds like every child's dream job - chocolate testing: something out of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. But it is of course a deadly serious business - not just to ensure chocolate tastes good and is healthy - but also to comply with laws on chocolate composition.
This is of course a keenly fought over issue, especially in the European Union (EU) where chocolatiers and their political representatives debated permissible ingredients for years. The result was the EU's chocolate directive' (Directive 2000/36/EC), which - famously - ...
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