The Outlaw Ocean Project

The Outlaw Ocean Project

I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry. A report published in 2022 by the non-governmental research organization, the Committee for Human Rights in North Korea, identified Dandong Taihua Food Co. Ltd. 丹东泰华食品有限公司 as using North Korean labor after the deadline for the repatriation of overseas North Korean workers required under UN Security Council Resolutions. The import to the U.S. of goods produced by North Koreans is prohibited under U.S. sanctions. Trade data shows that Frobisher International Enterpr…

The Outlaw Ocean Project

I wrote to you earlier this year regarding The Outlaw Ocean Project’s investigation into the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry as it related to your supply chain. I am contacting you again in light of new findings made as part of our ongoing reporting, which concerns abuses in the Chinese squid fishing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between companies engaged in abuses and a supplier in your supply chain - Rongcheng Puchen.

We have evidence of squid catch from a Zhoushan Ningtai Ocean Fisheries vessel that engaged in unregulated fishing activity - the Ning Tai 58 -…