The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao PreparationsZipperer, Paul
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The Manufacture of Chocolate and other Cacao Preparations
Zipperer, Paul
Cacao; Chocolate; Cocoa
Art. 6. Any infringement of the articles of this decree will incur a
fine in accordance with the code of fines issued on Aug. 4th 1890, over
and above the ordinary penalties.
Art. 7. Our Board of Trade and Agriculture is hereby entrusted with the
carrying out of this decree, which shall come into force on April 1st
1895.
2. Roumania.
The royal enactment of this land respecting the health supervision of
foods and drinks and the trade in foods and drinks, articles 154, 155,
156 and 157 of the Health act of the 11th September, 1895, says the
“Buletinul directiunei generale a serviciului sanitar” 1895, No. 18 and
19, pages 277 et seq.
No. XIII, Article 137.
No product may be sold, exposed or held in possession or transmitted
for sale, under the designation cacao, other than the seed of the fruit
obtained from the tree “Theobroma Cacao It may be brought on the market
raw, roasted, or powdered after roasting.
Under the designation “Cocoa powder, defatted”, such may be sold as
has suffered loss of butter by extraction, provided that there still
remains a minimum 22% of cacao butter in the product. As disintegrated
cacao may be sold such powder as does not contain more than a maximum
2% of sodium or potassium carbonate.
Art. 138. It is illegal to sell or expose for sale artificially dyed
and pulverised cacao, and also such as has been mixed with starch
meals, foreign fats or any other foreign ingredients. It is in like
manner illegal to mix cocoa powder with shells, and the former may not
contain more than a maximum 15% of powdered shell.[223]
Art. 139. Under the designation “Chocolate”, only the foodstuff
prepared from a mixture of roasted and powdered bean and sugar, with or
without admixture of aromatic ingredients, as vanilla, cinnamon and the
like substances, may be sold and exposed for sale.
Art. 140. The manufacture and sale, as also the exposure for sale of
chocolate from cacao that does not answer the several demands of this
decree, articles 137 and 138, as well as of chocolate that is mixed
with starch, meals, mineral and artificially coloured substance, is
illegal.
3. Switzerland.
The association of analytic chemists in this country have issued a
book entitled “The Swiss Book of Nutritious Stuffs and Articles of
Sustenance”, where the methods and standards prevailing in research
work connected with such substances are finally established for
Switzerland. This work served as a guide as regards articles of
sustenance up to the time when the Swiss food act came into force, and
we accordingly annex a few extracts from it, dealing with our subject,
cacao preparations.
Definitions.
1. Cacao mass is obtained by grinding and moulding the shelled and
roasted cacao bean, without any admixture whatever, or extraction of
butter.
2. Cacao ~freed of oil~ is cacao that has been reduced by from 20%
to 35% as regards its butter contents by means of pressure under heat.
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