I’m contacting you in light of our latest investigation which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in such practices and PAFCO’s supply chain.

PAFCO’s suppliers Rongcheng Haibo and Shandong Haidu have received persons from the Xinjiang region of China under a state-imposed labor transfer program. The United Nations, human rights organizations and academic experts agree that since 2018, the Chinese government has systematically subjected Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities to forced labor ac…

We emailed you in July regarding our latest investigation, which concerns the use of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry, and a link we’ve discovered between a company engaged in such practices and PAFCO’s supply chain. We’re contacted you now with further details from our research into abuses in the Chinese fishing industry.

Trade records show that PAFCO has been the consignee for a dozen shipments of seafood from Shandong Haidu Ocean Product Co. Ltd. between 2018 and 2022, and one from Rongcheng Haibo Seafood Co. Ltd. in 2021. As raised in our previous email, both of these c…

Since we were last in contact with PAFCO in September 2023, our ongoing investigation has found further evidence of forced labor in China’s seafood processing industry which we want to bring to your attention. We have uncovered evidence that Dandong Taifeng 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 Taifeng’s factory in Liaoning, China, as recently as 2023. Under the Countering America's Adversaries Through San…