Ethical Standards

Tesco was one of the founder members of the Ethical Trading Initiative (Eti) in 1998. Eti is an initiative bringing together retailers, suppliers, trade union and charities to agree and deliver acceptable common standards in the Supply Chain.

We risk assess every produce supplier in terms of ethical standards and worker welfare and ensure that ethical standards are evaluated and monitored using SEDEX, the Supplier Ethical Data Exchange.

SEDEX is a system shared by many retailers enabling them to share data on labour practice in the supply chain and take action to improve their ethical performance.

Tesco ensures that all UK produce packhouses using temporary labour only use those labour providers who are licensed by the Gangmaster Licensing Authority