Product carrier and transport device

A product carrier for transporting food products, and in particular chocolate products, in a transport device, the transport device in a plant for producing food products,

• wherein the product carrier has an upper side for loading and/or inserting products and an underside opposite the upper side,
• the product carrier has a rectangular basic shape with longitudinal sides which have a length in a longitudinal direction, and with width sides which have a width in a width direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction,
• wherein
• the product carrier has, on the longitudinal sides, mutually-opposing longitudinal-edge strips, each of which has a drive aperture,
• wherein the drive apertures of the two longitudinal-edge strips are open in a direction extending away from the upper side, have a longitudinal extent of greater than 50%, and preferably greater than 80%, of the length of the product carrier, and have stop edges in and counter to the longitudinal direction,
• and, on the width sides, the product carrier has mutually-opposing width-edge strips which each have at least one guide aperture, wherein the guide apertures of the width-edge strips are open in a direction extending away from the upper side, and have a width extent of less than 10%, and preferably less than 5%, of the width of the product carrier.