Two traditional brands of the Federal Republic in court: The Stiftung Warentest and chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport arguing in court to the identification of a flavoring substance – and put their credibility on the line. Today, the process goes to the next round.
natural or man? That is the question in dispute between the chocolate manufacturer Ritter Sport and the Stiftung Warentest the identification of a vanilla flavor, the aromas from the manufacturer Symrise (wood Minden) is produced. For ten months, the case concerned the judiciary. For both sides, it is in the case also of good reputation in the game.
first What is at stake in the dispute Chocolate?
In November last year, the Stiftung Warentest published a test of whole milk and nut chocolates. It criticized the tester, the term “natural flavoring” in the chocolate Ritter Sport is misleading because it contains the flavoring piperonal. This will but chemically. In total judgment they therefore gave the chocolate touch the poor. Ritter Sport dismissed the allegations vehemently and said that it is the flavor piperonal is a natural flavor.
Very rare. Average drag, according to Stiftung Warentest only four to five companies per year in court – at 2000 tested products which is pretty little. “We have never had to pay damages,” says a spokeswoman. Many companies is the power struggle with the Stiftung Warentest too risky: If the suit is lost, the loss of image for a company, the greater
3.. Who complains actually against whom?
At the beginning of Ritter Sport has acted against the Stiftung Warentest. The chocolate manufacturer procured before the court for an injunction against the claim to have used a flavoring agent chemically produced. Then, the Stiftung Warentest had blacken the disputed parts of its report, but also moved to court and put an objection to the injunction on – but without success: In January, the judge decided on the Munich District Court, that they shall continue and threatened to infringements with a fine of 250 000 EUR.
appealed against this decision Stiftung Warentest an appeal, with the now employs the Higher Regional Court. Whether still falls on Tuesday a decision is unclear.
piperonal is a vanilla flavor that is perhaps the taste of chocolate. Ritter Sport is piperonal by its own account in all chocolates. On packs the company advertises for years so that you only use natural flavors. The same applies to piperonal: It’ll be, inter alia in plants and dill and be natural. Some other chocolate manufacturers use Vanillin, but draw it out as an artificial flavor.
5th Where does the Ritter Sport piperonal?
Ritter Sport relates the piperonal by the flavors manufacturer Symrise. The company from the Holzminden that makes a billion in sales of flavored, had filed an affidavit in court that the aroma is of natural origin. The Stiftung Warentest criticized but, in the previous methods, neither the manufacturer nor his chocolate flavors supplier Symrise had disclosed the actual manufacturing process of the vanilla flavor.
Actually sitting none of the parties in Munich: Ritter Sport is headquartered in Baden-Württemberg Forest book, the Stiftung Warentest in Berlin. Since the test report is published but nationwide, according to a court spokeswoman for the true “flying jurisdiction”. Thus, the process is not as usual at the headquarters of the parties instead – but in a court of your choice.
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