United States: the electronic industry is increasingly concerned with the corporate social responsibility of its suppliers

and environmental responsibility within its suppliers is making a clear break. Published on Friday, the document, which contains a quasi-thorough list of these businesses, reports that the number of audits increased by 80 percent between 2010 and 2011. Following the wave of suicides in Foxconn’s Chinese plants in 2010, Apple’s Supplier Responsibility team conducted a total of 229 audits – “more than 100 of these were at factories that we had not audited before” details the company, which now