Hands of my Chocolate!
Do you love your Chocolate? Are you addicted to the occasional Hershey Bar, Triple Chocolate Desert or the Caramel Squares in the Pot of Gold?
The USA food manufactures want to be allowed to label rendered animal fats with flavouring as Chocolate. These products are already in the market, however they currently have to be labeled as Chocolate Flavoured.
The proposed changes would make all of your chocolate taste like those “Chocolate Flavoured” holiday treats.
This article is where I became aware of the situation:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...apr19,0,2342362.story?coll=la-home-commentary
The FDA docket on modifications to existing rules to labeling and ingredients of food is here:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/07p0085/07p-0085.htm
The email address to comment on any FDA docket is here:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/contactdockets.html
In Canada, we can email our MPs and ensure that they know we want to sate our cravings on Real Chocolate made from Real Coco Beans.
Just as many of us want to know if there is Peanut Oil in a product, there are those Chocolate addicts that want to know that their Chocolate is a plant product and NOT an animal product.
The email address of your MP can be found here:
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
Do you love your Chocolate? Are you addicted to the occasional Hershey Bar, Triple Chocolate Desert or the Caramel Squares in the Pot of Gold?
The USA food manufactures want to be allowed to label rendered animal fats with flavouring as Chocolate. These products are already in the market, however they currently have to be labeled as Chocolate Flavoured.
The proposed changes would make all of your chocolate taste like those “Chocolate Flavoured” holiday treats.
This article is where I became aware of the situation:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion...apr19,0,2342362.story?coll=la-home-commentary
The FDA docket on modifications to existing rules to labeling and ingredients of food is here:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/07p0085/07p-0085.htm
The email address to comment on any FDA docket is here:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/contactdockets.html
In Canada, we can email our MPs and ensure that they know we want to sate our cravings on Real Chocolate made from Real Coco Beans.
Just as many of us want to know if there is Peanut Oil in a product, there are those Chocolate addicts that want to know that their Chocolate is a plant product and NOT an animal product.
The email address of your MP can be found here:
http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?TimePeriod=Current&Language=E
