Arduino. Apple report reveals grim truths behind gadgets | Health Tech. Apple's just-released progress report on the labor-related practices of its overseas parts suppliers reveals grim truths behind the making of such popular gadgets as the iPad and iPhone--including worker poisonings, child labor violations, and 60-plus-hour work weeks. The Supplier Responsibility 2011 Progress Report, released just weeks after Apple logged record profits of $6 billion , marks the first time the company has officially acknowledged that 137 workers "suffered adverse health effects" at Wintek's Suzhou factory in China (which supplies parts to Apple and Nokia) because of exposure to n-hexane, a toxic chemical in cleaning agents. A report last year in the U.K.'s Guardian newspaper said at least 62 Suzhou workers had been hospitalized, while Wintek claimed that a factory death was the result of a heart attack, not n-hexane exposure.
At that time, Nokia issued a statement denying that n-hexane was used on its production lines, while Apple declined to comment at all.
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