168. Chocolate

Chocolate (chocolate paste, confectioner’s chocolate, chocolate coating or chocolate powder) shall be a preparation of cocoa paste, cocoa powder or cocoa, with or without the addition of —

cocoa fat;

sugar;

spices;

milk solids;

permitted emulsifier;

permitted flavouring agent;

[Deleted by S 152/2017 wef 01/04/2017]

ammonium phosphatides in an amount not exceeding 10,000 ppm; and

up to 5% of vegetable fat (excluding cocoa fat).

No person shall sell any chocolate containing vegetable fat (excluding cocoa fat) unless the package bears a label on which is printed a statement indicating the presence of such vegetable fat.

Chocolate (chocolate paste, confectioner’s chocolate, chocolate coating or chocolate powder) shall be a preparation of cocoa paste, cocoa powder or cocoa, with or without the addition of —

cocoa fat;

sugar;

spices;

milk solids;

permitted emulsifier;

permitted flavouring agent;

[Deleted by S 152/2017 wef 01/04/2017]

ammonium phosphatides in an amount not exceeding 10,000 ppm; and

up to 5% of vegetable fat (excluding cocoa fat).

No person shall sell any chocolate containing vegetable fat (excluding cocoa fat) unless the package bears a label on which is printed a statement indicating the presence of such vegetable fat.