date:Sep 13, 2012
of some fair trade chocolate.
Using Ghana as an example, he said most cocoa, fair trade or otherwise, was bought by the government. Under a mass balance transaction, it all goes in to the same pot, he said.
This means a fair trade bar of chocolate may not contain any fair trade cocoa beans.
If you bought a fair trade product, you would assume it was made with fair trade beans, he added.
We are supposed to have provenance, but there is no requirement to segregate lines under the mass balance