Here are my comments to the FDA

To the FDA Food Standards Panel,
I strongly encourage you to maintain the current quality standards for chocolate production in the United States. The addition of vegetable oil solids, most likely in the form of partially hydrogenated oils containing unhealthy quantities of trans fats (known to adversely affect the cardiovascular health of individuals) would make chocolate a product than most individuals should avoid. Furthermore, allowing milk to be replaced with milk substitutes will ablate what small fraction of nutritional content currently obtainable from chocolate. As a consumer of chocolate, and a scientist who uses it to boost her productivity in lab (never actually bringing it INTO the lab, of course), I strongly object to the proposals of the Chocolate Manufacturers of America.
Sincerely,
Karen _____, PhD
Karen | 04.23.07 - 6:51 pm | #

Yeah. What's ridiculous is that the FDA even has a standard for chocolate in the first place (that is, a greater standard than keeping rat poison out of chocolate). Here's a suggestion for chocolate lovers to weather the loosened standards: only buy the chocolate you would actually like to eat. That just might force those greedy chocolate companies to actually produce the chocolate that customers will buy.
Anonymous | 04.23.07 - 10:35 pm | #