Hygiene code on chocolate

摘要

The Codex Committee on Food Hygiene (CCFH) issued a circular letter at the end of January 2009 to collect comments and information regarding a proposal for new work on a Code of Hygienic Practice for Cocoa and Chocolate Production and Processing. The questions asked included whether the nature and relationship of chocolate and cocoa production and processing justify a specific Code of Practice in this area, if the General Principles of Food Hygiene and its annexes would be considered to be insufficient to meet Codex objectives and what products, processes and stages in the food chain would be the main areas to focus on. It also asked what issues associated with those points in the food chain would be the most important to address through any such Code, and what information on human disease and contamination incidents with chocolate and chocolate products would be relevant to a specific Code of Hygienic Practice in this area.