From the Washington Post dated 10/23/19 By Peter Whoriskey "Chocolate companies ...

Chocolate companies sell ‘certified cocoa.’ But some of those farms use child labor, harm forests.

Utz, the largest cocoa certifier, found “alarming” problems at four firms responsible for auditing a large portion of the world’s supply.

By

Peter Whoriskey

Oct. 23, 2019 at 11:32 a.m. CDT

The leading organization responsible for policing standards in the world’s cocoa industry has regularly approved cocoa from West African farms that use child labor or have contributed to deforestation of the region, interviews and research show.

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