I’m contacting Ocean Kingdom Inc. 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.

Ocean Kingdom Inc.’s 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…

Our director Ian Urbina contacted you by mail in July 2023 regarding our investigation into the use of forced labor in China’s food processing industry. We are contacting you again now with further findings of our ongoing investigation, as they relate to your supply chain. We have uncovered evidence that a Chinese company called Dandong Hailong Foodstuff used North Korean labor after the December 2019 deadline for the repatriation of overseas North Korean workers required under United Nations Security Council sanctions. This evidence shows North Korean labor at Dandong Hailong Foodstuff’s fact…