Lucius & Ki buys its wood from a Sumatran supplier certified by the Forest Stewardship Council, an independent organization promoting global environmental preservation.
Before the cafes can be certified, Mr. Coumont will have to prove that every ingredient has come from an organic farm or supplier (certified, of course), and have the paperwork at hand.
It is critical that chocolate suppliers certify their products to be free from forced labour, child labour, and human trafficking.
"The supplier network certifies social enterprises, finds social enterprises in response to contract opportunities, measures the impact of an organisations procurement from social enterprise, creates opportunities for buyers to meet suppliers," Daniels said.
The world's largest maker of tantalum capacitors, Kemet, in Greenville, S.C., has asked its suppliers to certify that ore does not come from Congo or bordering countries, including Uganda and Rwanda.
Flowserve Corp. has received the "AREVA Certified Supplier" award and seal of approval.
Now, I choose to boycott any chocolate supplier who refuses to certify their products as free of coercive labor practices, child labor, and human trafficking.
A synthetic gibbsite MARTINAL® OL-111/LE (Martinswerk GmbH, Bergheim, Germany) with a purity of 99.4% (data certified by supplier) was used without further pretreatment.
Its Web site -- www.certifiedwood.org -- lists certified suppliers of wood around the world.
But Dave Dickson, a spokesman for Kimberly Clark, said that only 14percentt of the wood pulp used by the company came from the boreal forest and that the company contracted only with suppliers who used "certified sustainable forestry practices".
