We’re contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry, specifically North Korean workers in Chinese plants.

We have investigators on the ground in China who have been engaging with labor brokers directly involved with the transfer of North Korean workers to factories in China. Through this and other investigative means, including collecting online footage from the plants and interviews with workers recently returned to North Korea from China, we’ve found large numbers of North Korean workers at a range of seafo…

We appreciate your research and the information facilitated. We have reached out to supplier Brasmar in Portugal that has provided the following input: Brasmar has full traceability of their food products; Brasmar acknowledges a spot purchase at Donggang Haimeng Foodstuff in 2021, but the order was for their own subsidiary in Brasil.

Brasmar reports that by no means such a product has been available in the portuguese retail market, and therefore has never been on sale at any El Corte Inglés store.

Further to that, we have requested Brasmar to enhance their due diligence management system,…