News & Analysis on Chocolate, Candy and Cocoa
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Wrigley is urging consumers to chew sugar free gum as part of oral healthcare routines and dismisses that it is contributing to dental diseases through parent company Mars’ sugar-based products.
A territory in Far-Eastern Russia has proposed an amendment to federal law that would allow all ex-Soviet factories to once again produce confectionery goods they made before the USSR was dissolved.
Pittsburgh-based confectioner Tsudis Chocolate is facing a $87,260 fine after multiple failures led to an employee’s hand being crushed in a machine.
Cocoa trader Armajaro is considering closing its operations in Ecuador, but says it is business as usual in the Ivory Coast.
The FDA’s decision to give the thumbs up to spirulina as a source of blue color in candy and gum finally gives US firms a natural alternative to artificial FD&C Blue #1 ('brilliant blue') and opens up new opportunities in natural greens, say color suppliers.
Borregaard's vanillin and ethyl vanillin plant in Norway has acquired the food safety certification FSSC22000 to distinguish it from a rise in competitors.