Paragraph 1 I1
Northern Ireland
Subject to the following paragraphs, the vegetable fats referred to in regulation 3 are, singly or in blends, cocoa butter equivalents and shall comply with the following criteria: –
(a)
they are non-lauric vegetable fats, which are rich in symmetrical monounsaturated triglycerides of the type POP, POSt and StOSt;
(b)
they are miscible in any proportion with cocoa butter, and are compatible with its physical properties (melting point and crystallisation temperatures, melting rate, need for tempering phase);
(c)
they are obtained only by the processes of refining or fractionation or both, which exclude enzymatic modification of the triglyceride structure.
Annotations
Commencement
- I1
Sch. 2 para. 1 in operation at 3.8.2003, see reg. 1