Post-War chocolate interventionist regulations
Abstract
Chocolate, its manufacture, composition and trade were subject to strong state control during the years following the Spanish Civil War. This study highlights the importance of this product, a stimulant and powerful restorative, whose production, marketing and consumption were permanently in the spotlight of the authorities throughout the first decade of Franco's regime. That control was carried out by means of meticulous regulations that extended to the importation of raw materials, which were non-existent on the Spanish mainland, the composition of the product and its marketing. Finally, at the beginning of the 1950s, the traffic of such highly demanded merchandise within Spanish territory was liberalised.
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