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Default Chocolate Purists Alarmed by Proposal To Fudge Standards

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...602824_pf.html

....the current FDA standard for chocolate says it must contain cacao
fat -- a.k.a. cocoa butter -- and this proposal would make it possible
to call something chocolate even if it had vegetable oil instead of
that defining ingredient.