The Ministry of Labour's inspectors are developing a pioneering activity, linking the exploitation of poor workers making charcoal at the edges of the Amazon forest, in one side of the production chain, to profitable pig-iron producers in the other. Here they are inspecting a big company in Para State. The managers of this company were arrested the following day, as the Federal Police found over 50 truckloads of illegal charcoal in the companyÕs premises, destined to pig-iron production. The company was also fined heavily by the environmental agency IBAMA.