2. Roumania.
The royal enactment of this land respecting the health supervision of foods and drinks and the trade in foods and drinks, articles 154, 155, 156 and 157 of the Health act of the 11th September, 1895, says the “Buletinul directiunei generale a serviciului sanitar” 1895, No. 18 and 19, pages 277 et seq.
No. XIII, Article 137.
No product may be sold, exposed or held in possession or transmitted for sale, under the designation cacao, other than the seed of the fruit obtained from the tree “Theobroma Cacao It may be brought on the market raw, roasted, or powdered after roasting.
Under the designation “Cocoa powder, defatted”, such may be sold as has suffered loss of butter by extraction, provided that there still remains a minimum 22% of cacao butter in the product. As disintegrated cacao may be sold such powder as does not contain more than a maximum 2% of sodium or potassium carbonate.
Art. 138. It is illegal to sell or expose for sale artificially dyed and pulverised cacao, and also such as has been mixed with starch meals, foreign fats or any other foreign ingredients. It is in like manner illegal to mix cocoa powder with shells, and the former may not contain more than a maximum 15% of powdered shell.[223]
Art. 139. Under the designation “Chocolate”, only the foodstuff prepared from a mixture of roasted and powdered bean and sugar, with or without admixture of aromatic ingredients, as vanilla, cinnamon and the like substances, may be sold and exposed for sale.
Art. 140. The manufacture and sale, as also the exposure for sale of chocolate from cacao that does not answer the several demands of this decree, articles 137 and 138, as well as of chocolate that is mixed with starch, meals, mineral and artificially coloured substance, is illegal.
3. Switzerland.
The association of analytic chemists in this country have issued a book entitled “The Swiss Book of Nutritious Stuffs and Articles of Sustenance”, where the methods and standards prevailing in research work connected with such substances are finally established for Switzerland. This work served as a guide as regards articles of sustenance up to the time when the Swiss food act came into force, and we accordingly annex a few extracts from it, dealing with our subject, cacao preparations.