CP Hosting Supermarket Giants to Create Create Global Benchmark on Shrimp Feed, Anti-Slavery Measures
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [The Guardian] by Annie Kelly July 30, 2014
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Morrisons and Tesco join Birds Eye and others to create a taskforce to tackle slavery and trafficking in the seafood industry
UK and US supermarket groups are meeting in Thailand this week to create a taskforce to tackle trafficking and forced labour in the shrimp feed industry.
The talks follow a Guardian investigation last month that uncovered slavery in the supply chains of Thai seafood sold to major international retail brands.
The three-day meeting will be hosted by Charoen Pokphand (CP) Foods, the world's largest prawn farmer, which the Guardian found buys fishmeal from suppliers that own, operate or buy from fishing boards manned with slaves...
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