News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
Cadbury is Britain's most trusted chocolate and confectionery brand, according to a 2008 Reader's Digest survey, despite Cadbury-Schweppes being fined £1m last year for allowing the sale of salmonella-contaminated chocolates.
Sources for calcium, magnesium, copper and zinc have been deemed safe for use in foods and food supplements by a European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) panel.
Vegetable oil prices are expected to remain high into the coming 2008/09 season as surging demand from the developing world outpaces production, predicts the US agriculture department.