How Coffee Farmers in Hawaii Fought Counterfeit Kona Beans
Briefly

Those farmers recently won a series of settlements totaling more than $41 million after a nearly five-year legal battle with distributors and retailers that were accused of using the Kona name in a misleading way.
The class-action lawsuit, aided by a novel chemical analysis of coffee from Hawaii and around the world, prompted some companies to include the percentage of authentic Kona beans on product labels.
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