GB 9678.2-2014: National Food Safety Standard -- Chocolate

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Scope

This Standard is applicable to chocolate, chocolate with cocoa butter alternatives and its
products.
2  Terms and definitions
2.1 Chocolate
Food that is in solid or semi-solid status under room temperature; its main raw materials
are chocolate products (cocoa butter, cocoa mass or cocoa liquor, cocoa cake, cocoas
powder) and/or white granulated sugar; it is added or not-added with milk products and
food additives; and it is processed by specific process.
2.2 Chocolate products
Food that is in solid or semi-solid status under room temperature; made from chocolate
and other foods in certain proportion; and it is processed by specific process.
2.3 Chocolate with cocoa butter alternatives
Food that is in solid or semi-solid status under room temperature; with the flavor and
character of chocolate; its main raw materials are white granulated sugar and cocoa butter
alternatives, etc. (the addition of cocoa butter alternatives shall not exceed 5% based on
original mixture calculation); it is added or not-added with cocoa products (cocoa butter,
cocoa mass or cocoa liquor, cocoa cake, cocoas powder), milk products and food
additives; and it is processed by specific process.
2.4 Chocolate products with cocoa butter alternatives
Food that is in solid or semi-solid status under room temperature; it is made from
chocolate with cocoa butter alternatives and other foods in certain proportion; and it is
processed by specific process.
2.5 Cocoa butter
The butter in cocoa beans.
2.6 Cocoa butter alternatives
The fat that is from non-cocoa vegetables. It may fully or partly replace cocoa butter.

Basic Data

Standard ID	GB 9678.2-2014 (GB9678.2-2014)
Description (Translated English)	National Food Safety Standard -- Chocolate
Sector / Industry	National Standard
Classification of Chinese Standard	C53
Classification of International Standard	67.190
Word Count Estimation	4,434
Date of Issue	12/24/2014
Date of Implementation	5/24/2015
Older Standard (superseded by this standard)	GB 9678.2-2003
Regulation (derived from)	Health Planning Commission Bulletin 2014 No. 21
Issuing agency(ies)	National Health and Family Planning Commission of the People's Republic of China
Summary	This Standard is applicable to chocolate, cocoa butter and chocolate products.