News & events
ECA & FCC Joint Statement
24/01/2011
ECA and FCC issue joint statement following recent developments in Côte d'Ivoire. Click here to see the statement.
ECA December 2010 Cocoa Update
23/12/2010
Please have a look at ECA's latest newsletter "Cocoa Update"!
Response to the EC Staff Working Document on Combating Child Labour
20/12/2010
ECA and Caobisco provide a response to the European Commission Staff Working Document on combating child labour.
Concoction IV – Amsterdam – 24-26 September 2010
27/09/2010
ECA held its "2010 Concoction IV" event on September 24-26 in Amsterdam, which marked the association's tenth anniversary.
Click here to know more about the event.
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.