Correspondence
Email sent to Tiger Beaudoin, President, and John Neupauer, Channel Sales Director, of Food Service Rewards.
The email said that Food Service Rewards sells Six Mates sole fillets by Maloney Seafood. Trade data shows that Maloney Seafoods has imported shipments of sole from the processor Yantai Sanko Fisheries, based in China. Yantai Sanko Fisheries Co. Ltd. has received persons from the Xinjiang region of China under a state- imposed labor transfer program since 2019 and until at least 2022. 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 schemes which use coercive methods in worker enrollment. The U.S. has prohibited the importation of goods produced from state-imposed forced labor. The email asked for comment.