Labelling requirements for confectionery, chocolate and snack food products

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• Overview
• Exemptions
  • One bite confections
• Common name
  • Standardized common names for chocolate and cocoa products
  • Modified standardized common names for chocolate products
  • "Chocolate" as part of the common name
  • Common name for boxed confections
  • "Semi-sweet", "bitter-sweet", "sweetened", "sweet"
  • Belgian chocolate
  • Cocoa vs cacao
  • Goober
  • Lozenge
  • Potato crisps
  • Salt and vinegar flavoured chips
  • Trail mix
• List of ingredients
  • Exemptions from component declaration
  • Cocoa as flavour
  • Dutched cocoa
  • Confectioner's glaze
  • Chocolate fillings – nitrogen declaration
• Net quantity
  • Manner of declaring
• Percentage statements on nuts
• Nutrition labelling
  • Exemption from the requirement for a nutrition facts table
  • Basis of nutrition facts table information - chocolates
• Voluntary claims and statements
  • Calcium enriched claim on pretzels
  • Non-cariogenic substances
  • "Natural" claim on chocolate with lecithin
• Other claims and representations
  • Chocolate pictures on food products
• Definitions
  • Chocolate product
  • Cocoa product
  • Sweetening ingredient