Improved method for determination of light filth in chocolate products

The recovery of rodent hairs from chocolate has been significantly improved by the introduction of an additional defatting step, substitution of 40% isopropanol for water, and substitution of mineral oil-heptane (85+15) for heptane in the trapping-off step. These changes have no adverse effect on insect fragment recovery. An average recovery of 95% was obtained for rodent hairs, coefficient of variation 7.9%. Insect fragment recoveries were 100%.