I see that a lot of you express your concern about products made in China, and that’s not surprising considering how much negative media there is about problems there.

But I want to let you know it’s not all bad news. While researching a product, I found they use a service called Verite, which monitors and improves labor conditions around the world. Their vision for the global workplace: “safe, fair, sustainable.”

While they don’t give a list of products or companies that use fair trade labor in China, you may run across products, as I did, that mention they are manufactured in Verite monitored factories in China.

Now, it’s still more sustainable to buy products made in the USA, but at least we know it’s not complete chaos in China.