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Article

8 Oct 2004

Author:
Jeff Coelho, Reuters

Cocoa Industry to Launch Child-Labor Watch [Côte d'Ivoire]

The cocoa industry, facing criticism for not moving fast enough to stomp out child labor, will launch a pilot monitoring system in West Africa next month with hopes of sweetening chocolate's tainted image...The CMA [Chocolate Manufacturers Association] - which has members like Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Nestlé SA - and its partners are working with the International Labor Organization, Ivory Coast's government and local nongovernmental groups...