Global supply chains featuring commodity ingredients and foods are often opaque, tangled and secretive. Huge multi-national food companies often have well-crafted human rights policies listed on their websites while at the same time finding themselves in legal conflict. This is often over payment and treatment of workers producing the basic building blocks of the many products from chocolate bars sold in supermarkets to the latest mobile phone. It’s a murky world, and one that is attracting the attention of Washington DC, the United Nations and the EU.
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