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Article: Equal Exchange Introduces First Hot Cocoa With Fair Trade Certified Label; Organic Gourmet Mix Offers Consumers Socially Responsible Option.
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- PR Newswire
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- August 29, 2002
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CANTON, Mass. -- Equal Exchange, the nation's leading fair trade coffee company, today introduces America's first hot cocoa mix to carry the fair trade certified label. The label guarantees consumers that the cocoa was produced and sourced in a socially responsible manner. An independent non-profit certifying body, TransFair USA, certifies both the labor conditions and the prices paid to cocoa farmers and authorizes the use of its label on Equal Exchange's hot cocoa mix. The organic cocoa is grown and supplied by CONACADO, a cooperative of small farmers in the Dominican Republic.
In 1986 Equal Exchange introduced fair trade to the U.S. coffee industry as a way ...
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