[kenavi]

Who’s questioning Swiss chocolate standards? Some guys in Hershey PA or from Mars?

[muawiyah]

If the Swiss standard is 1 troy ounce, how do you know they measured the chocolate correctly?

Let's say Switzerland says the ingredients must be heated to 100 degrees C for 10 minutes ~ and an entry was placed in the data base ~ how do you know the data entry personnel were trained and the computers were capable of properly recording the entry.

This stuff is just basic quality control ~ everybody does it ~ and the cheapest way to insert quality control for processed food and food byproducts is AT THE FACTORY. Downstream validation where you pull a candy bar and eat it is rather expensive compared to this more modern approach.

[Repeat Offender]

The same ones that think hydrogenated rat turds and formaldehyde make superior chocolate to "milk, sugar, cocoa."

I remember being in Norway and buying a chocolate bar at a corner store for the equivalent of a quarter and thinking it was the most amazing piece of chocolate I had ever eaten. It didn't have that sugar and wax taste that most American "chocolate" has.