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Production

PRONATEC reports a clean bill of health for its organic cocoa beans

28-Sep-2023

By Anthony Myers

The family-owned company has been processing cocoa beans into cocoa mass, butter, and powder at its own exclusively organic plant in Winterthur, Switzerland, since June 2022 and says an assessment carried out this month shows there have been no pesticide...

Sustainabilty

Cargill accused of child labour practices on Brazilian cocoa farms

28-Sep-2023

By Anthony Myers

Cargill, one of the world’s largest cocoa suppliers, has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay 600,000 reais ($120,185) as indemnity for allegedly buying cocoa from farms where child labour or forced work has been identified.