We’re writing to you in light of our latest investigation, which concerns abuses in the Chinese squid fishing and seafood processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between companies engaged in abuses and a supplier in your supply chain. According to our research, Nordic Seafood has supplied Garant’s own-brand squid.

Documentation produced by Nordic Seafood in 2022 shows that the company has been supplied squid from a Chinese processor called Rongcheng Xinhui Aquatic Products Co. Ltd. We have visual evidence of Rongcheng Xinhui receiving squid catch from a Chinese squid jigger called th…

First, thanks for the research efforts you have put into this extremely important question. At Dagab (a part of Axfood) we see the eradication of forced labour as one of our top priorities and we are well aware that some of the most severe forced labour conditions exist within the global fishing industry. Because of that we have had an active Fish and seafood-policy since 2008 and we have done sustainability assessments of all products with the content over 5 % from amfori BSCI risk-countries (like China) since 2015. For the Garant squid we succeeded in getting MSC-certification from 2020 to b…