Sysco’s seafood supply chain auditing process questioned

Sysco is facing questions over whether its auditing system forits seafood supply chain is capable of detecting labor abuses, including the use of Uyghur labor at its contracted facilities in China – a practice that is illegal under U.S. law. In a 14 December letter to Sysco Corporation President and CEO Kevin Hourican, U.S. Representative Jared Huffman (D-California) critiqued the thoroughness and reliability of audits that Sysco relies on to claim it does not sell seafood produced by forced…