Barry Callebaut, manufacturer of high - quality cocoa and chocolate products, has announced that the EU Commission has approved its health claim
submission on cocoa flavanols (Regulation No 851/2013).
Information for the
submission was drawn from Baby Milk Action (marketing of breastmilk substitutes, water pumping in São Lourenço, Brazil), International Labor Rights Forum (child slavery and labour in the
cocoa supply chain, Labour rights abuses in Colombia), Union of Filipro Employees (Labour rights abuses in the Philippines), Corporate Accountability International (Conflicts with communities over water resources), Attac Switzerland (Spying
on campaign organisations), with additional information drawn from Food Inc. published by the UK Food Group (reference in the
submission, treatment of dairy and coffee farmers).