ABIDJAN and BRASILIA (Reuters) - Ivory Coast is investigating how two shipments of cocoa beans exported last month became infested by insects causing the receiving country, Brazil, to suspend imports from the world's top grower, an official with the country's marketing board said.
A Brazilian agriculture official told Reuters last week that the shipments, which totalled 10,000 tonnes, lacked the usual documents showing they had been fumigated after loading into the ships' hulls, as required under Brazil's regulations.
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