Hi Anika,
After a quick surf, as per previous posts, it is rather obvious that cocoa is quite a favorite topic for food fraud in recent traffic. I think this would guarantee close BRC interest if you were in Europe/UK. Not so sure in Canada.
I noticed this link which maybe has a quantitative crumb of comfort near the end -
At the time NCFPD conducted this assessment, we concluded the overall fraud vulnerability score for cocoa in the U.S. was medium-low. Fortunately, there have been no been publicly reported cases of fraud in cocoa products since the [Ebola] outbreak began. This is just one example of the complexity of factors that can affect the incentive and opportunity for fraud in the food products we eat.
https://foodprotecti...-ebola-outbreak
(BTW - this article also contains a quite interesting example of a response for most of the 5 core elements in BRC7 clause 5.4.2, although i found the implication that the product's positive historical fraud record reduced the food's vulnerability rather weird)
Edited by Charles.C, 15 January 2016 - 08:59 AM.
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