Coffee growers seek label rules

Pacific Business News (Honolulu)

The Hawaii Coffee Association lined up growers to testify before a state Senate committee on a measure to seek a state study on coffee labeling.

The association, which did not support other bills to set immediate labeling standards, urged members to support a truth-in-labeling resolution Wednesday before the Senate Water, Agriculture and Hawaiian Affairs Committee. The measure already cleared the House Agricultural Committee.

"The Hawaii Coffee Industry continues to suffer from frauds and cheats who are masquerading non-Hawaiian coffees as the real thing," the association said.

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