For everyone in the USA!!!

What this proposed FDA law would do is make it so that up to 100% of the cocoa butter in chocolate could be replaced by vegetable fats and they could still call it Chocolate! So when you buy a bar of “fine chocolate” there would be a possibility that there is vegetable fats in it and not cocoa butter.

Cocoa butter is important because of the way it melts. If this change occurs the companies that use vegetable fats will have chocolate that will have a horrible melting property and ruin the taste and feel of the chocolate.

This law will confuse people on what real chocolate is in a time when people WANT REAL CHOCOLATE!

So write in to the FDA! All the instructions are on the link below and it only takes a minute. Go tell them that you don’t want to allow vegetable oils in Chocolate!

http://dontmesswithourchocolate.guittard.com/whatsthisabout.asp

Robert Noel
http://www.chocolateguild.com

I don’t see this affecting serious brands of US chocolate. I only see this being relevant to the larger brands of chocolate, which are rubbish to begin with.

Robert’s spot on. It’s blurs the reason why the standard of identity was created in the first place. I do think at some point in the future we will see the US SOI’s amended to allow for 5% CBE’s to bring it in line with much of the rest of the world. There’s no way it’ll be so broad as to include ‘all safe and suitable fats’ as the proposal is currently written.

In China, for example, some 95% of those item’s called ‘chocolate’ are really compounds – China recently legislated what chocolate is and what it isn’t, but c’mon, let’s face it, they’ve got bigger issues to solve than policing what is and what isn’t legally chocolate. Problem is, as western companies come in with real chocolate, there’s a couple of billion people who probably think it’s something else..

Hey Everybody,
Here is the link to the segment on CBS 5 with myself and Gary Guittard. They got one of the numbers wrong on the segment on how much vegetable oil will be allowed but you can still see the rest…

http://cbs5.com/video/?id=22219@kpix.dayport.com

Robert Noel
http://www.chocolateguild.com

Good News…the FDA has seen how many people have written in to them and how much of a concern we showed that they are extending the commenting period another month…Everyone can still write in, who hasn’t already, to the FDA until May 25th! So keep spreading the word…Make sure the FDA doesn’t change our chocolate!

http://www.dontmesswithourchocolate.com

Robert
http://www.chocolateguild.com

Thanks Masur,

I hadn’t seen that one. I like some of the clarity she shines upon the chocolate-making process as opposed to some other recent articles. She also has a number of great points about standardizing chocolate labeling, especially in the US. Does anyone know if the FDA has stated the deadline for their ruling (not for the last day that petitions are accepted)?

Best,

Alan

[url="http://www.Patric-Chocolate.com"]Patric Chocolate[/url]

Congratulations chocolate!

“Porcelana: The Holy Grail of Pure Criollos” (Maricel E. Presilla)

I was told that it was the most letters/emails written into the FDA ever. It is hard to make the FDA say “wow” and I think that is exactly what we all accomplished…

You don’t mess with American’s chocolate! haha

Have a great day everybody…

Chocolate Connoisseur
http://www.chocolatiernoel.com