Martha Mendoza

Associated Press

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

August 8, 2025

A worker holds acai berries for sale on Combu Island, Belem, Brazil, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025.

Acai Berry Producers Are Concerned as Trump Imposes Tariffs on Brazil's Exports

August 11, 2025

The entrance to the Boar's Head deli meat plant in New Castle, Ind., Aug. 6, 2025.

Boar's Head Plans to Reopen Troubled Deli Meat Plant, but Reports of Sanitation Problems Persist

August 8, 2025

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Researchers Create Better Blue Food Dye from Algae

August 7, 2025

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing has a new podcast brought to you by the editors of Industrial Media. In each episode, we discuss the five biggest stories in manufacturing, and the implications they have on the industry moving forward.

August 8, 2025

International Rights Advocates Executive Director Terrence Collingsworth and translator Melina Cardinal Bradette talk to children working on a cocoa plantation in Daloa, Ivory Coast, April 2020.

Federal Government Sued Over Cocoa Imports Linked to Child Labor

Cocoa harvested by children in West Africa can end up in some of the U.S.'s most popular desserts and candies.

August 15, 2023

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Customs Blocks North Korean Imports

The North Korean workers found in Chinese factories aren't allowed to leave, and receive only a fraction of their pay — most goes straight to the North Korean state.

October 6, 2017

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Customs Vows to Block N. Korean-Made Seafood

American consumers buying seafood labeled "Caught in the USA, Processed in China" may inadvertently be subsidizing the government of Kim Jong Un as it builds nuclear weapons.

October 6, 2017

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Americans May Be Buying N. Korea-Produced Seafood

Workers have no access to telephones or email. And they are paid a fraction of their salaries, while the rest — as much as 70 percent — is taken by North Korea's government.

October 5, 2017

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Red Bull Scandal Exposes Web of Tax Havens

The Yoovidhya family's efforts to hide assets show how easily major global financial players can routinely — and, usually, legally — move billions of dollars with little or no oversight.

August 17, 2017

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More Tuna Makers Implicated in Price Fixing

A typical can of tuna today costs about $1.50 and the U.S. Department of Justice says that price may be the result of price fixing by Thai, South Korean and U.S. seafood dealers.

May 16, 2017