We take responsible sourcing very seriously within our supply chain and through our supplier approval process we are able to maintain high standards of supplier knowledge and assess particular sourcing origins that would be considered higher risk. We are members of SEDEX and through this we are increasing our exchange of ethical data throughout the supply chain. We do source teas from areas of the world that would be deemed as higher risk and we only work with suppliers that meet our own requirements for responsible sourcing - for example, all the tea we source from India is from estates owned by a group that were the first corporation to sign up to the Modern Slavery Act 2015 in India. Whilst we have not visited every estate that we currently source from, we have visited a large proportion and due to the quality of teas that we source many of the estates are regularly audited by both national and international auditing bodies such as the Ethical Tea Partnership, Fairtrade, Rainforest Alliance to name a few - all of which have both minimum environmental and ethical standards that must be adhered to.