The Swiss government announced this week that it will no longer include coffee to its emergency stockpile of food and items. It says that coffee is not essential to human health. Host Marco Werman speaks with Hans Helfiger, the director of ReserveSuisse, the company in Switzerland that manages the stockpiles of food and grains, including coffee. The World’s Lucy Martirosyan goes to the Speciality Coffee Exposition in Boston, where coffee professionals are meeting. She spoke with Chahan Yeretzian, a coffee scientist from Switzerland.
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