Sentences with phrase «ethical sourcing policies»

What's the biggest factor preventing more companies developing ethical sourcing policies for their ingredients?

The company has an ethical sourcing policy and aims to buy Fair Trade and organic ingredients for its products, and has its full sustainability report (PDF) available online, which details its initiatives in water conservation and efficiency, energy conservation, reducing its carbon footprint, and waste diversion.

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This isn't the first instance that members have influenced MEC to drop a brand, Labistour said, and the organization has rigorous policies for investigating supply chains with a focus on ethical sourcing and the environmental footprint of the brands it carries.

Though Whitehead sees the church as one of several civil institutions that could strengthen families, she is not much interested in the church's potential role as a source of ethical reflection and public - policy recommendations.

In particular, he will focus on advancing precision medicine; delivering data products that integrate and usefully present information from multiple sources; and, ensuring that privacy and ethical concerns are taken into account in data science policy.

Soon and his co-authors have published dozens of papers in top scientific journals worldwide, sometimes without disclosing the source of funding for those projects, a practice that raises ethical questions and often violates the conflict - of - interest policies of the publications.

With most domestic appliances having electronic elements these days, Ethical Consumer expects all companies in this sector to have a policy on the sourcing of the conflict minerals (tantalum, tin, tungsten and gold) which are key components of electronic devices.