Following the accusation made by the German team of the 2007 Bocuse d’Or against the French candidate, the International Organisation Committee of the Bocuse d’Or would like to specify the following points:
The rules of the Bocuse d’Or are anticipating this situation (article 15):
“For a period of one hour after publication of the results, the Officers will record written complaints exclusively from the National Selection Presidents. These claims should be submitted in French language and in writing, to the Official Contest bailiffs, and made to the attention of the President of the International Organising Committee. No claims submitted after the one hour time limit will be taken into consideration.”
As no claim was submitted to the International Organizing Committee during the one hour period of time given by the rules no accusation can be taken into account.
However, the International Organisation Committee is able to confirm that 2 cases were in fact delivered to the French candidate at 9:18 AM, 2 minutes before the starts working (9:20 AM for box n°4). These cases could not be delivered the day before because of bad weather conditions in France. The International Organisation Committee had been informed of this delivery and authorised it like he would have done for any other candidates.
According to the rules, the 2 cases were duly checked by the International Organisation Committee and contained silver pieces, sauce boats for the presentation of the dishes and various authorised products as sous-vide raw Foie Gras.
Due to the information in possession of the International Organization Committee, no irregularity can be therefore retained against the French candidate.