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A Superior Court judge in California has approved a settlement resolving claims about levels of lead and cadmium in chocolate and whether they require warnings under California’s Proposition 65 law. The settlement was negotiated by non-profit consumer advocacy group As You Sow and leaders of the chocolate industry over the past year. The settlement requires a […]

An investigation by Mighty Earth, ‘Chocolate’s Dark Secret,’ has found that a large amount of the cocoa used in chocolate produced by Mars, Nestlé, Hershey’s, Godiva and other major chocolate companies was ‘grown illegally’ in national parks and other protected areas in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. “The report documents how in several national parks and

Cocoa producers adjusting to requirements for limits on levels of ochratoxin A, cadmium and PAHs in cocoa could soon find they have to respond to limits on mineral oils, alkalising agents and other substances. Speakers at recent conferences suggest that limits on substances such as mineral oil and alkalising agents might be introduced in due

A report by Future Market Insights underlines what the industry already knows about demand for cacao beans. But the question is whether consumers will continue to be willing to pay for premium chocolate products when the recession bites.