News & events
Initial Response to the EC Staff Working Document on Combating Child Labour
26/04/2010
ECA and Caobisco provide an initial response to the European Commission Staff Working Document on combating child labour.
Concoction IV – Amsterdam – 24-26 September 2010
06/04/2010
Take a first peek at our programme for this year’s event, that coincides with ECA’s 10th Anniversary. We look forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam! Additional information will be posted in June.
Click here to see the Concoction announcement
Cocoa powder
The finely ground particles obtained from the mechanical disintegration of cocoa press cake.
Expeller cocoa press cake
Cocoa beans or cocoa dust or both with or without cocoa nib, cocoa mass, cocoa press cake, fat-reduced cocoa press cake or any combination of two or more thereof which has been converted by the expeller process to a solid compressed mass.
Cocoa press cake
Cocoa nib or cocoa mass converted by pressure by a mechanical process to a solid compressed mass.
Cocoa mass (also called Cocoa liquor)
Cocoa nib, mechanically processed to a paste, which retains the natural fat content of cocoa nib.
Cocoa nib
The cotyledon of roasted or unroasted cocoa beans containing a residue of shell or germ not exceeding 5 per cent calculated on the dry defatted matter and an ash content not exceeding 10 per cent calculated on the dry defatted matter.
Sound
"Sound" when applicable to cocoa products shall mean full and undamaged cartons and/or packages.