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Assured Food Standards is a United Kingdom company which licenses the Red Tractor quality mark, a product certification programme that comprises a number of farm assurance schemes for food products, animal feed and fertilizer. The scheme is subject to frequent media scrutiny because of the systematic and routine animal abuse that happens at Red Tractor assured farms.
OSI Group is an American privately owned holding company of meat processors that service the retail and food service industries with international headquarters in Aurora, Illinois. It operates over 65 facilities in 17 countries. Sheldon Lavin is the owner, CEO and chairman.
Kazi Farms Group' is one of the biggest businesses of the poultry industry in Bangladesh. Kazi Zahedul Hasan, the managing director, was awarded Business Person Of The Year for 2004 in Bangladesh. It runs most of its office computers on free and open-source software such as Linux.
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