Ivorian chocolate's dark side; Certification problems slow child-free guarantee.(WORLD)(BRIEFING: AFRICA)

Washington Times, The, February, 2007

Byline: Karen Palmer, THE WASHINGTON TIMES ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Five years after Sen. Tom Harkin, Iowa Democrat, proposed legislation to label every chocolate bar sold in the United States with a "free from child-labor" notice, industry workers, government officials and farmers are mired in a mess of sorting out certification to ensure that only adult hands plant, harvest and transport the cocoa beans that are made into M&Ms and Mars Bars.

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