We had the topic on the table about a year ago and once again the warning about children's chocolate is circulating.

What is meant is: a large wave of distributions of the article with the warning about children's bars. If you look closely at the article, you will read: “ Foodwatch, an association that checks the quality and ingredients of food, has now found something in them that can have fatal consequences .”. At least this warning is not fake , but it was first published in July 2016 .
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According to a report in “Spiegel” from July 2, 2016, the consumer organization Foodwatch speaks of significant contamination with aromatic and saturated mineral oil hydrocarbons, including in the “Kinder Bar” from Ferrero and in the “Sun Rice” chocolate bites produced for Aldi.
In addition to lots of sugar (a 100 gram bar contains 52.5 grams of sugar) and a barely measurable proportion of milk, there is also mineral oil, even more than in the Advent calendars and Easter bunnies tested in March.

Mineral oil?

This naturally occurring mixture of different hydrocarbons keeps everything in the global economy running smoothly.
Not trade or international relations, but the engines of cars, ships and airplanes, for example. There are the saturated hydrocarbons (“Mineral oil saturated hydrocarbons”) MOSH and the aromatic hydrocarbons (“Mineral oil aromatic hydrocarbons”) MOAH. Those MOAH are suspected of being carcinogenic. In May 2015, the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment checked whether the substance, which is also used in cosmetics (skin creams, lotions, body and facial cleansers, sun creams, self-tanners, deodorants, etc.), posed a health risk. The result at the time was “According to current scientific knowledge, health risks for consumers are unlikely”. Mineral oils used in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals must meet certain requirements; they must be extremely pure and compatible, colorless and odorless and tasteless. These so-called white oils are also used in the food industry, for example in chocolate, because they are believed to be so harmless and harmless.

Stiftung Warentest had detected traces of mineral oil in chocolate from Advent calendars and Foodwatch in Easter bunnies. During the tests, residues of potentially carcinogenic MOAH (aromatic mineral oils) were found in low concentrations in eight out of twenty rabbits from different manufacturers.

How does this stuff get into the chocolate?

Mineral oils are also used in the food industry as lubricants for machines and in packaging.
Foodwatch names the transport of cocoa in contaminated jute bags and contact with oiling machines as sources of contamination. The colors on cardboard boxes made from recycled paper can also have a negative impact. During storage, the substances from the recycled paper printed with inks containing mineral oil get into the chocolate. The European Food Safety Authority classifies MOAH as “possibly carcinogenic and mutagenic”. The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment states: “The presence of mineral oil components, especially MOAH, in food is fundamentally undesirable.”

No limits

However, there are currently no legal limits for mineral oil residues in food.
Manufacturers and retailers have been trying to ban these substances from food production for years, according to “Spiegel”. Aldi Süd and Lidl are said to have asked their suppliers to identify all sources of contamination and to only use production materials that are free of mineral oil.
If you consider the circumstances under which cocoa is partly grown and harvested in order to get it onto the world market as cheaply as possible, it will be a long road to chocolate that is absolutely free of mineral oil and the road begins with us, only when we are ready for more Bars of chocolate or cans of cocoa are only then likely to change in the countries of origin.
Sources:

Author of the original report 2016: Andre W., mimikama.org

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