Candy Business, September 1st, 2001
DAVE HOFFMANN
* Recent allegations of child labor abuses on Ivory Coast cocoa farms are stirring up tempests in chocolate kettles throughout the developed world. While details on the full extent of the practice will have to wait until the fall harvest's on-site investigations by the CMA and other organizations are completed, the wide-spread interest the consumer press has in this issue is just the start of what might turn into a long-running thorn in the industry's paw.
The purported use of child slaves to harvest cocoa first surfaced last year in a British documentary, but did not gain wi...
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