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Workers Poisoned by Chemical at Apple Supplier in China

Apple recently released a 2011 Supplier Responsibility Report which offered details on labor abuses that had been revealed at their suppliers’ factories in China, including poisoning by n-hexane. The New York Times reports that Apple has so far not lived up to its promises to improve conditions: Apple, describing it as a “core violation” of worker safety, said that it had ordered the contrac