A group of NGOs have sent a letter to separate seafood distributors and retailers asking for an update on their investigations into whether their supply chains were exposed to Uyghur or North Korean labor.

The letter calls for an update on the investigations companies said they were performing in the wake of multiple reports by the Outlaw Ocean Project on forced labor in seafood supply chains.

The letter was signed by 18 NGOs…

“The findings on the investigations, which shed light on the use of state-imposed forced labor in your company’s seafood supply chain, are deeply concerning and demand immediate attention from all stakeholders in the industry,”the NGO letter, which was provided to SeafoodSource, states…

… the NGOs are asking some of the companies named in the reports to follow up on what progress they have made in the investigation…

…letters have been sent to 13 different companies: Sysco, Trident Seafoods Corporation, Ahold Delhaize, Lidl, Albertsons, Metro Canada, Aldi South Group, Carrefor, Cite Marine, High Liner Foods, Nichirei Seafoods, Nomad Foods, and Young’s Seafood…

SeafoodSource’s requests for comment from the 13 companies that received the NGO letter have so far gone unanswered.