In 2019, Hershey announced that they could not guarantee that their chocolate products were free from child slave labor, as they could trace only about 50% of their purchasing back to the farm level. According to The Washington Post, the commitment made in 2001 to eradicate such practices within four years had not been kept, neither at the due deadline of 2005, nor within the revised deadlines of 2008 and 2010, and that the result was not likely to be achieved for 2020.
In 2019 Hershey announced that they could not guarantee that their chocolate products were free from child slave labor as they could trace only about 50% of their purchasing back to the farm level According to The Washington Post the commitment made in 2001 to eradicate such practices within four years had not been kept neither at the due deadline of 2005 nor within the revised deadlines of 2008 and 2010 and that the result was not likely to be achieved for 2020