The Seventeenth Session of the Codex Committee on Cocoa Products and Chocolate reached the following conclusions: MATTERS FOR CONSIDERATION BY THE COMMISSION The Committee: · advanced the Proposed Draft Revised Standards for (a) Cocoa Butters; (b) Cocoa (Cacao) Mass (Cocoa/Chocolate Liquor) and Cocoa Cake, for Use in the Manufacture of Cocoa and Chocolate Products; (c) Cocoa Powders (Cocoas) and Dry Cocoa-Sugar Mixture to Step 5 of the Codex Procedure for the provisional adoption (para. 58 and Appendices II; III and IV) MATTERS OF INTEREST TO THE COMMISSION The Committee: · returned the Proposed
Draft Standard for Chocolate and Chocolate Products to Step 3 as several issues
required further consideration, especially as it could not reach consensus on
whether or not to allow the use of vegetable fats other than cocoa butters in
manufacturing chocolate products (para. 16 and Appendix V). |