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The Rise of All-You-Can-Eat Shrimp
Once a delicacy saved for special banquets or weddings, shrimp became a staple at all-you-can-eat seafood buffets at American seafood chains largely…
Apr 10
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Ian Urbina
Researchers Point to Flaws in Audit Industry
Labor and supply-chain researchers say that there are fundamental flaws in the auditing system on which restaurants and retailers around the world…
Apr 5
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Ian Urbina
Taking Stock on the "Growing Goliath" Investigation
Roughly two weeks ago, we produced an extensive investigation of a shrimp processing plant in India. The reporting took a lot of guts to publish since…
Apr 4
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Ian Urbina
Lax FDA Enforcement Lets Unsafe Shrimp Reach Shelves
In the U.S., the agency that is responsible for stopping antibiotic-positive seafood is the FDA, which checks only 1 percent of shrimp imports for the…
Apr 3
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Ian Urbina
India Shrimp Rife with Bondage, Hazards, and Stolen Wages
Is there a wider problem with Indian shrimp?
Apr 2
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Ian Urbina
Is there something rotten in global seafood?
The past half year has seen a steady stream of disturbing reports about serious human rights abuses tied to industrial fishing. First came a long expose…
Apr 1
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Ian Urbina
March 2024
Human Rights NGO Files Federal Petition to Block Seafood Tied to North Korean Workers
The impact of our investigation into China’s role in the world’s seafood supply that revealed the broad use of captive North Korean workers in Chinese…
Mar 25
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Ian Urbina
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Austin Brush
The Whistleblower
An American took his dream job in India. What he found was something else entirely.
Mar 21
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Ian Urbina
Call for the U.K. Government To Halt British Import of Chinese Seafood Connected to Forced Labor
This week an NGO filed a legal petition to the British government, seeking formal sanctions against seven Chinese companies that were revealed by the…
Mar 7
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Ian Urbina
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Austin Brush
February 2024
The North Koreans Putting Seafood on American and European Plates
Perhaps the only thing tougher than interviewing workers in China about human rights is doing the same in North Korea. Still, it seemed worth trying…
Feb 25
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Ian Urbina
January 2024
Can Social Audits Work in China?
Since releasing our investigation, we’ve been asked repeatedly about the credibility of social audits, and we wanted to offer some resources that…
Jan 12
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Ian Urbina
Legal Petition to Treasury Department Aims to Limit Imports from Key Seafood Companies Tied to Forced Labor
Shortly after we published our investigation globally, officials from several federal agencies asked if we might consider molding our findings into a…
Jan 11
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Ian Urbina
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