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 your supply chain.
Your supplier Rizhao Jiayuan Foodstuff Co. Ltd. is a Meijia Group company. The Meijia Group has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the state-imposed labor transfer program.
The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has systematically…
We previously emailed you on May 25 regarding our latest investigation into 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 your supply chain called Rizhao Jiayuan Foodstuff.Rizhao Jiayuan Foodstuff Co. Ltd. is a Meijia Group company. The Meijia Group has received persons from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China under the state-imposed labor transfer program. Our investigation has uncovered evidence of Uyghur workers inside Rizhao Jiayuan Foodstuff in 2019 and as recentl…
Ian. My name is Howard Lapides Exec VP at H & T Seafood. You incorrectly stated on your website that we sell seafood to ICA in Sweden. We've never sold them in our company's history. Please remove this incorrect and damaging information immediately! This is very serious!!
Ian, please remove our company H & T Seafood from your website. We don't sell any frozen seafood to any chains in Sweden. We do not do business in Sweden. We are asking you to please do the right thing and get our company removed off your list today. Also we don't even know who Rizhao Jiayuan Foodstuff Co. Ltd is. We don't buy from them. Please remove us off the list immediately. This inaccurate information could severely damage our company. We work with a very small group of frozen fish processors in China and none of them are involved with slave labor. We are emphatically opposed to slave l…
”Mr. Lapides, Thanks for your note. As you may be aware, we reached out to your company on May 25, 2023 and again on September 21, 2023 seeking input about our findings. You can see the text of those inquiries at this spot on the website. Unfortunately, we did not receive a response to either inquiry. What’s still on the Outlaw Ocean website is based on data from Import Genius. Those records indicate that between 2018 and 2021, H & T Seafood Inc imported five shipments of squid tubes from Rizhao Jiayuan Foodstuff and one shipment of mussels, mollusks, and squid tubes from Yantai New Ocean Aqua…
I reviewed the spreadsheet that you forwarded to me through the link on LinkedIn and saw that we have not purchased any products from any of these companies since June 2020.