Extended Data Fig. 9: Distribution of forced labor risk by supply chain stage per ton of refined sugar supplied to the US.
From: Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply
This figure illustrates how risk flows through supply chain stages and countries to refined sugar to the US. ‘Sugar beet and sugar cane supply’ is the agriculture stage, ‘sugar raw centrifugal’ and ‘sugar refined supply’, are the first and second stages of processing, respectively, and ‘sugar refined end-use’ refers to the consuming country (the US). Percentages provided correspond to the percentage contribution to risk in each stage, as measured in the units medium-risk hours equivalent (mrh-eq) per ton. An interactive version of this figure showing all foods in the dataset is available at https://sites.tufts.edu/lasting/data/.
