Correspondence
Email sent to the contact address for Sea Global Co. Ltd.
The email said: "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 - Dandong Taihua Foodstuff. We have uncovered evidence that the Chinese company Dandong Taihua Foodstuff Co. Ltd. used North Korean labor after the December 2019 deadline for the repatriation of overseas North Korean workers required under United Nations Security Council sanctions. We have found evidence of North Korean labor at Dandong Taihua’s factory in Liaoning, China, as recently as 2022. According to our research, Dandong Taihua has supplied clam meat products under Sea Global’s brands ‘Sea Village’ and ‘Arachan’. While we understand that you may not be aware of the above issues, does Sea Global have any comment to make in response to this email?"