Method to detect chocolate fraud becomes an international standard
Tuesday, December 8, 2009 - 01:22
in Mathematics & Economics
European countries are the biggest consumers of chocolate confectioneries in the world. A newly developed method to measure vegetable fats in milk chocolate has become the first such method to be adopted as an international standard by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO). It has been developed to enable the enforcement of the so-called Chocolate Directive, which stipulates that European chocolate must not contain more than 5% vegetable fats, other than cocoa butter.