"Thai Union Frozen cuts supplier after fishing slavery report", 26 March 2015

Thailand's biggest seafood company said it has cut ties with a supplier named in an Associated Press report after determining it might be involved with forced labour and other abuses. The statement by Thai Union Frozen Products follows a year-long investigation that linked severe abuses on Southeast Asian fishing trawlers to dinner tables in the US and around the world. "Thai Union embraces AP's finding," the company said in a statement that calls the use of slave labour "utterly unacceptable." Thai Union said the supplier was "terminated" immediately. The...statement did not list a specific company, and Thai Union declined further comment. "Consumers can rest assured that our current products are not tainted with the alleged trade supplier," Thai Union said. "This is to prove that Thai Union takes the issue of human rights violation extremely seriously."