date:Aug 07, 2012
late production process including samples of shell, nibs, liquor, butter, cake and cocoa powder.
Copetti and her co-workers reveal the highest levels of ochratoxin A were found in the shell, cocoa powder and cocoa cake.
The cocoa butter was the least contaminated, showing that ochratoxin A seems to remain in the defatted cocoa solids,said Copetti and colleagues, who added that further analysis showed 93.6% of ochratoxin A present in cocoa beans at the start of the process was reduced during c