Trevor Ward

1 INTRODUCTION Over the last few decades, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) in the United States has drastically increased, with one in 10 adults affected, resulting in a significant disease burden.1, 2 It has been projected that this burden will increase further as the US population ages, which calls for seeking effective measures to prevent and manage T2D and prediabetic conditions.2, 3 The Diabetes Prevention Program, which is an in-person diabetes-prevention programme (DPP), is a...

The seafood supply chain is often long and fragmented, and slavery is a tenacious problem. The vast majority of workers are engaged in the early stages of production and often employed through subcontracts or brokers. We hypothesized that food companies could identify risks and implement improvements by adding a labor safety dimension to their tracking and traceability systems. We designed a five-point framework—the Labor Safe Screen—and tested it for 118 products.

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