I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between companies engaged in such practices and one of your suppliers. Our research shows that Cité Marine supplies Casino with seafood spreads containing white fish for its own-brand range. Cité Marine has imported large volumes of white fish, specifically, pollock and cod from Qingdao Tianyuan Aquatic Foodstuff Co. Ltd. since the Chinese plant is known to have first started using Xinjiang labor in 2018. Our evidence demonstrates the p…

Thank you for your initial response and this positive engagement with our findings, we look forward to Casino Group's full reply next week. Unfortunately, we are unable to share any documents or other materials with you in advance of publication. But I can confirm that our evidence includes state media articles describing government transfers of Xinjiang workers to Qingdao Tianyuan, as well as photographic and video footage showing people from Xinjiang working at both Qingdao Tianyuan and Qingdao Lian Yang as recently as May 2023 and April 2023, respectively. Please be advised that we have als…

Following your alert, we would like to reaffirm the Casino Group's commitment to combating human rights violations in the supply chain, and in particular forced labour in all its forms. On receipt of your e-mail, we have contacted Cité Marine, a supplier to most of all French retailers of national brand and private label products. The checks we carried out in a very short space of time, given your request for a response by 05/09 for an alert received on 28/08, do not indicate at this stage that the factory that supplies Cité Marine does have any practices similar to forced labour. According t…

Since we were last in contact with Casino Group in September 2023, our ongoing investigation has uncovered further evidence of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry which we want to bring to your attention.

We have uncovered evidence that the Chinese company Donggang Haimeng has used North Korean labor after the December 2019 deadline for the repatriation of overseas North Korean workers required under United Nations Security Council sanctions. This evidence shows the presence of North Korean labor at Donggang Haimeng’s factory in Liaoning, China, as recently as 2023.

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