Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea are using facilities in Thailand to clean and can their tuna. This was violating the origin rules of the Buy America standards. There also were allegations that workers suffered terrible conditions while cleaning tuna. Because they were escaping USDA standards, a ban was placed in schools for their tuna. Millions of dollars in government sales were at stake. Rep. Linda Sánchez (D-Calif.) introduced legislation last year that would loosen the origins rules for tuna. I have no idea if those rules were loosened because that information goes nowhere in my Google search.
Thanks for the info. I generally have a photographic memory, but occasionally run out of film. So I won’t buy Bumble Bee, Chicken of the Sea or Starkist tuna any more. What’s left?