Acknowledgment
We are most grateful for all the helpful advice and suggestions received from the large number of colleagues who have provided many valuable comments, insights and constructive criticisms to earlier editions of the manual.
For this 4th edition special thanks go to Yunusa Abubakar, Michelle End, Catherine Entzminger, Martin Gilmour, Marc Joncheere and several other anonymous reviewers.
Many thanks also to the secretariat and members of the ECA-CAOBISCO Working Group of Pesticides and Contaminants. We would also like to thank Daniel Kadow (Chairman of the Joint Cocoa Research Fund), Katrin Sinderhauf-Gacioch, Pierre Broun and Michiel Kokken; we are also most grateful to Michel Arrion, and the rest of the team at ICCO for their support.
Several diagrams in this manual are courtesy of CropLife International - the industry association that places information on PPE, safe use of pesticides, storage, etc. in the public domain (http://www.croplife.org). We also thank Jean-Ponce Assi, Jerry Cooper, Hans Dobson, FERA UK, Marc Joncheere and Graham Matthews for other illustrations.
Our sponsors have provided funds for this work in order to promote international development and cocoa sustainability. The views and recommendations expressed here are given in the spirit of free exchange of information and ideas.
Whereas every care has been taken to ensure accuracy throughout, we cannot take any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions in this manual. Any such errors are the sole responsibility of the authors, who continue to welcome comments and suggestions for future revisions.
RB & JC Revision: February 2023
