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"Madam President, by tabling amendments to the chocolate directive, we have tried to offer better protection to those consumers who would like to know whether they are buying real chocolate or a product which, instead of cocoa butter, also contains fats of another origin. However, these amendments were not adopted, unfortunately. As a consequence, we remain concerned about the third-world cocoa producers. We predict that, despite any improvements for the benefit of producers of other vegetable fats, the overall outcome will, in any case, be harmful to the third world. It is regrettable that the study into the impact of the new directive for the countries in the South was not carried out earlier. From now on, chocolate is no longer a product which consists of nothing but cocoa butter. In some parts of the Union, the name ‘chocolate’ was already used, even if the product contained substitute products. We regret that the standardisation we have achieved is to the detriment of the consumer and the cocoa producer, and was dictated by the pursuit of profit."@en1
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