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Article: White chocolate identity set by FDA. (News).
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- Candy Business
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration has established a standard of identity for white chocolate, effective January 1, 2004. The rule provides a common name for products made from cocoa butter, milk solids, nutritive carbohydrate sweeteners and other ingredients, but which do not contain non-fat cacao solids.
21 CFR Part 163 is amended to include section 163.124, White Chocolate, which reads, in part: "White chocolate contains not less than 20 percent by weight of cacao fat as calculated by subtracting from the weight of the total fat the weight of the milkfat, dividing the result by the weight of the finished white chocolate, and multiplying the ...