“Chinese workers at a factory making touch screens on contract for Apple have urged the U.S. company to help address their grievances over a chemical poisoning they said could still harm their health,” Royston Chan reports for Reuters.
Wintek, the Taiwanese company that owns the factory in east China’s Suzhou industrial park, has said it used hexyl hydride, also called n-hexane, from May 2008 to August 2009, but stopped after discovering it was making workers ill,” Chan reports. “‘This is a killer, a killer that strikes invisibly,’ said a Chinese-language copy of the letter meant for Apple CEO Steve Jobs that workers showed Reuters. An English version had been sent to Apple.”
Chan reports, “The poisonings were mentioned in a recent report from Apple,
which sources many of its strong-selling iPhones, iPads and other devices to contract manufacturers in China. That report said 137 workers had been hospitalised because of poisoning but had all recovered, a conclusion also offered by Wintek. Apple declined to comment on the workers’ letter and referred a reporter back to its supplier report.”
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