Correspondence
Email sent to Bon Preu Group's contact address.
The email said: "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 your supply chain. Frigorifics Ferrer S.A., which supplies squid products to Bon Preu Group, imports squid from a Chinese processor called Shandong Haidu Ocean Product Co. Ltd. Shandong Haidu 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 subjected Xinjiang’s predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities to forced labor across the country via state-sanctioned employment programs which use coercive methods in worker enrollment, and obstruct freedom to leave employment. The U.S. has prohibited the importation of goods produced from state-imposed forced labor. Does Bon Preu Group have any comment to make in response to the above information? Please reply to this email by close of business on July 6, 2023."
Bon Preu replied: "First of all we would like to thank you for sending us this mail. We will send the information to the corresponding department, and in case of interest they will contact you."