As companies strive to uphold the rights of human workers in their global supply chains, they shouldn’t overlook another critical concern of regulators: trees.
Diversion of future shipments to West Coast ports would become more difficult and costly if a stoppage was prolonged as ships back-up and remain unloaded, reducing available capacity.
Mars is planning to have cocoa it purchases physically separated from products that come from other unverified sources at every stage in its supply chain.
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