Are the products you buy tainted by slavery and child labor? A new California law can help you find out.

Chances are, they're in your pockets, your closet, and even your body.

From cotton to coltan, materials tainted by slavery and child labor flow through opaque, fragmented supply chains to end up, often without our knowledge, in the products we buy. It's a global reality that has received little mainstream scrutiny, but a new California law may herald a changing national attitude towards holding corporations accountable for the materials they use.

This week, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed California's Supply Chain Transparency Act.  The law, sponsored by state Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), requires companies operating in California and making more than $100 million in annual revenue to publicly report on voluntary efforts to monitor their direct supply chains in order to eliminate exploitation.

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