1. The Codex Committee on Cocoa Products and Chocolate held its Seventeenth Session in Bern, Switzerland, from 16 to 18 November 1998, at the kind invitation of the Government of Switzerland. The session was opened and chaired by Prof. Dr. Ing. Erich J. Windhab, Chair of Food Process Engineering, Institute of Food Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. The Session was attended by 118 delegates and observers from 33 Member countries and 7 international organizations. The list of participants is attached to this Report as Appendix I.
