House Foods Group Material Partner Corporate Social Responsibility Guidelines
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Details
Operating a quality
management system

Specific actions
Creating and managing a quality management system.

Our products should satisfy the safety standards stipulated in national
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Ensuring product safety
laws and regulations as well as meet the requirements of the House
Foods Group and our partners.
Ensuring safety
and security Providing accurate product and We provide consumers and clients with accurate information about our1-3
service information
products and services.
We prepare a business continuity plan (BCP) so that product supply can
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Stable supply of products
be maintained or swiftly restored even in the case of unforeseen
circumstances.
Prohibition of forced and child
labor

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Prohibition of discrimination,
Human rights, abuse, and harassment
labor, safety,
Appropriate working hours andand health
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wages
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Employees' right to organize

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Ensuring health, safety, andhygiene in the workplace

Compliance with laws andregulations
Prohibition on corruption and3-2
bribesProhibition of misuse of
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predominant position
Prohibition of giving or
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with Laws and advantages
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Respecting intellectual property
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We comply with all laws and regulations in the countries and regions
where we conduct corporate activities.
We maintain healthy and normal relations with politics and government,
not engaging with bribes or illicit political donations.
We do not act in ways that our predominant position disadvantages ourpartners.
We do not give or accept inappropriate advantages in our relations withstakeholders.

We do not obstruct fair, transparent, and free competition.
We do not violate the intellectual property rights of other companies.
Regardless of whether disclosure is mandated by laws and regulations,
Information disclosure
we actively provide and disclose information to our stakeholders.
We do not engage with anti-social forces in any way, including
Elimination of anti-social forcestransactions.
Creating internal reporting
We create mechanisms to quickly detect and rectify irregularities andsystems
issues that happen inside the company.

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Initiatives for environment
management systems

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Efficient use of resources,
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energy, and water, and wastefriendlymanagement
perspective
Preventing environmental
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pollution
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Respecting biodiversity

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Defending against
computer and network threats

Community
Service

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We do not impose any forced labor (incl. human trafficking), such that itgoes against that person's will or limits their freedom to leave the job.
We also do not employ children who have yet to reach the minimum
legal age to work in that country.
We do not accept any form of employment discrimination or any
excessive or inhumane treatment, such as abuse and various types ofharassment.
We manage employees' working hours as appropriate and pay suitablewages in accordance with that country's laws and regulations.
We respect our employees' right to organize as a means to bring aboutlabor-management talks on working environment, wage levels, etc.
We prepare a working environment where employees can work safely
and comfortably as well as provide suitable health management for allemployees.

Community
Service

We build and operate environment management systems as well as
strive to minimize the negative effects of our business activities on theenvironment.
We set voluntary targets and work to continuously improve in terms ofsaving resources, saving energy, cutting water use, reducing
greenhouse gas emissions, and decreasing waste, so that we can makeefficient use of limited resources.
We comply with environment-related laws and regulations and takesuitable measures to prevent air, water, and soil pollution.
In cases where our business operations risk impacting biodiversity, westrive to grasp the extend of that impact and minimize it.

Confidentiality and personal
information protection

We devise defensive measures against computer and network threats,
managing them so that no harm is done to the House Foods Group orother companies.
We appropriately manage and protect the personal and confidential
information of customers, third parties, and employees.

Coexistence with society andlocal communities

We actively conduct activities that contribute to the development of theinternational community and local society.