Correspondence
Email sent to the media contact at Martin's Foods was blocked, so an email with the same text was sent to the company's interim president, John Ruane.
The email said that Martin's Foods stocks Dagim Tahorim flounder fillets. Dagim Tahorim imports flounder from the processor Yantai Sanko Fisheries, based in China, which has received persons from the Xinjiang region of China under a state-imposed labor transfer program. The email said that 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 Martin’s Foods for comment.