Brands that have committed themselves to the sourcing of (sustainable) UTZ CERTIFIED raw materials are global market leaders. UTZ is expanding their work to join forces in order to address issues that cannot be solved by certification alone. We have worked consistently to improve our standards, assurance mechanisms and associated interventions — and will continue to do so.”The chocolate companies that have boasted of their commitment to buying certified cocoa emphasized, in response to this story, that the certification efforts have helped in less measurable ways — they’ve trained farmers, for example — and that their efforts to halt environmental and labor abuses go beyond certification. There are 3 types of costs that may apply to the members of the UTZ cocoa program: Program fee. “It’s an open secret in the Ivory Coast that almost no one checks the certified farms for compliance.“Certification misleads consumers to believe that farmers earn a living wage, their children go to school, and labor conditions are decent. … The program fee covers the running costs of our programs. Mars and most of the other companies continue to tout similar certification goals.Cocoa is considered certified if one of three nonprofit organizations — Utz, Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade — are willing to grant it their label, their seal of approval. There were some ways that Utz farms looked better: Utz farmers were more likely to have planted shade trees, which are a recommended means to counter deforestation. Every year, it certifies the crops from hundreds of thousands of West African farmers.“Consumers believe that by buying certified cocoa they are doing something good for the environment, or children, or farmers,” said François Ruf, a researcher based in Ivory Coast and a co-author of a 2013 study co-sponsored by Utz. Since these companies buy raw materials in large volumes, we can improve … There is no fee charged for use of the UTZ label on finished products.There are costs involved in certification. The auditing firms cited for problems had conducted audits for most of the farms in Ivory Coast, the world’s largest single source of certified cocoa.In 2017, Utz certified 1.5 million tons of cocoa, or about two-thirds of the world’s supply of certified cocoa, according to industry statistics. The map review that identified Utz farms inside the protected forests, however, is only partially complete.Finally, asked about reports from former Utz employees who said auditors are sometimes solicited with bribes and, other times, threatened with violence, the Utz officials indicated that corruption in the system was limited.“In its fifteen-year history, UTZ Certified has investigated only isolated cases of corruption,” the organization said in a statement.“We acknowledge that things must change,” the organization said in a statement to The Post, and accordingly, it is adopting a new approach to child labor. “If people cannot read or write, if they make just 70 cents a day, and we come with 35 pages of requirements that they must meet, we are not creating a sustainable economy.”Even some of Utz’s own research provides further evidence that the inspection system is weak: In key ways, the farms that it approves in West Africa are little different from those that are not certified.Twice, in 2013 and again in 2017, researchers from Wageningen University & Research surveyed hundreds of farmers in Ivory Coast and compared farmers certified by Utz with those who were not certified.On the issue of child labor, the Utz-certified farmers had more child laborers than farmers who lacked certification.

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