When is chocolate not chocolate? That question is under current consideration by the FDA, and the agency's possible answer has stirred strong feelings among both makers and consumers of chocolate.
The FDA is involved because it has the authority to set standards for food products. These standards are to ensure that the consumer gets what he thinks he is buying, not a product that is almost the same thing.
Standards for chocolate have changed only twice since the 1940s. One change involved the manufacturing process. The second change was to define the ingredients that constitute what can be labeled as "white chocolate.
The standard for chocolate now requires that it have two ingredients: cocoa