{"id":73496,"date":"2024-12-02T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/italian-purees-in-uk-supermarkets-likely-to-contain-chinese-forced-labour-tomatoes-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T14:43:42","slug":"italian-purees-in-uk-supermarkets-likely-to-contain-chinese-forced-labour-tomatoes-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/italian-purees-in-uk-supermarkets-likely-to-contain-chinese-forced-labour-tomatoes-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Italian\u2019 purees in UK supermarkets likely to contain Chinese forced-labour tomatoes | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cItalian\u201d tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour, <!--more--> the BBC has found.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 17 products, most of them own-brands sold in UK and German retailers, are likely to contain Chinese tomatoes &#8211; testing commissioned by the BBC World Service showed.<\/p>\n<p>Most Chinese tomatoes come from the Xinjiang region, where their production is linked to forced labour by Uyghur and other largely Muslim minorities. <\/p>\n<p>The UN accuses the Chinese state &#8211; which views these minorities as a security risk &#8211; of torture and abuse. <\/p>\n<p>China denies it forces people to work in the tomato industry and says workers\u2019 rights are protected by law. It says the UN report is based on \u201cdisinformation and lies\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>All the supermarkets whose products we tested dispute our findings.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#China #Italy #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cItalian\u201d tomato purees sold by several UK supermarkets appear to contain tomatoes grown and picked in China using forced labour,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}