These Regulations, as regards the territory of Gibraltar, are setting the food safety standards and issues related to the production, processing, packaging and labelling, advertising and trade of food product and foodstuff containing and/or consisting of cocoa (chocolate products intended for human consumption). This text is divided into 18 different sections as follows: Title and Commencement; Interpretation; Exemptions; General restrictions on use of reserved description; Labelling and description of cocoa and chocolate products; Labelling and advertising of filled chocolate; Declaration of the presence of certain ingredients in chocolate products; Dark couverture chocolate; Declarations relating to quality of certain chocolate products; References to natural sources of flavouring substances; Manner of marking or labelling; Instant preparations for sale otherwise than by retail; Advertisement of cocoa and chocolate products for sale from vending machines; Cocoa beans; Permitted additional ingredients in cocoa and chocolate products; Penalties; Defences; Application of various sections of the Act. Schedules 1 and 2 are part of this publication (Cocoa products and their reserved descriptions; and List of permitted acids, permitted bases and permitted emulsifiers).
Gibraltar (UK) · 1987-08-01