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 a company engaged in such practices and Sysco France's supply chain.
Cité Marine, a supplier of processed Alaska pollock and Atlantic cod products to Sysco France, sources from a company called Qingdao Tianyuan Aquatic Products. Qingdao Tianyuan Aquatic Products has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the state-imposed labor transfer program. Sysco France was this…
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Please see our reply below. It can be attributed to a ‘Commission spokesperson’.
The Commission was not aware of the allegations regarding the supplier of our supplier.
The position of the Commission on this topic is clear: On 14 September 2022, the Commission tabled a legislative proposal to prohibit products made with forced labour on the EU market. The aim is to eliminate all products made with forced labour from the EU market, irrespective of where they have been made. Our ban will apply to domestic products, exports and imports alike.
Sysco FRANCE was selected as a possible supplier…