Description

Main technical characteristics:
• moisture content of cocoa beans is not more than 7.5%;
• **0 g - not more than **5 pieces;
  Content of defective cocoa beans:
• underfermented - not more than *0%;
• moldy - no more than 4%;
• dark gray - no more than 8%;
• damaged by insects, germinated or flat (total) - not more than 6%;
• destroyed beans, fragments, pieces of peel (total) - not more than 2%;
• impurities - not more than 1.5%;
• presence of live insect pests and / or their larvae is not allowed.
Toxic elements:
• lead - not more than 1.0 mg / kg
• arsenic - not more than 1.0 mg / kg
• cadmium - not more than 0.5 mg / kg
• mercury - not more than 0.1 mg / kg
• aflotoxin B1 - not more than 0.**5 mg / kg