AXIO | Proficiency Testing schemes 2026
Chocolate & Cocoa QCS
“Confidence with the challenge of chocolate testing” Ensuring the safety and quality of chocolate and cocoa products is particularly challenging. In mature markets like Europe, regulators set clear rules and definitions for the composition, manufacture, packaging, and labelling of chocolate and cocoa products. When producers fail to meet those standards, mass recalls tend to make the news and provoke an emotive response amongst devoted consumers – leading to significant damage to both brand reputation and to the bottom line. Guaranteeing product safety is also becoming more difficult for company laboratories – not just because of innate compositional factors such as high sugar and fat content, but also due to uncertain growing and cultivation conditions that potentially increase the concentration of certain analytical parameters, and the rise in popularity of organic, raw and unprocessed ranges. Covering both raw and finished products, and with more than half of samples supplied as cocoa powder, the AXIO Chocolate & Cocoa Scheme (QCS) is specifically designed to meet the industry’s particular demands – and provide our global network of laboratories with confidence in the measurement and accuracy of their results.
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The full range and availability of test materials and analytes is determined on an annual basis and may be added or removed. For accredited and non-accredited status, plus the most up to date sample data, please see the current application form/scheme description for this scheme.
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