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 === Business ethics websites ===
 * [http://www.ethicalconsumer.org/ The Ethical Consumer] - The UK's only alternative consumer organisation looking at the social and environmental records of the companies behind the brand names.
+* [[FLO]] [http://www.fairtade.net/ fairtrade (.net)]
 * [http://www.thegoodshoppingguide.com/ The Good Shopping Guide] - UK
 * [http://www.responsibleshopper.org/ Responsible Shopper] A project run by [http://www.coopamerica.org Co-op America] that has very convergent goal with us and they actually have a '''Searchable''' DB online with 350 big companies investigated.
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 * '''[[Internet UPC Database]] [http://upcdatabase.com/ (.com)]]  - Database of [[manufacturer]]s and [[product]]s with [[UPC]] codes''', searchable online and downloadable version which is not as up-to-date as the online version but is strangely [[license]]d under [[GPL]]. Internet UPC Database released a [[barcode]] read-via-camera enabled iPhone app in 2015.
-* [[FLO]] [http://www.fairtade.net/ fairtrade (.net)] - for Redefinition of [[mandatory label]] terms like [[dolphin safe]], which we must track closely.  '''what is the best source on this issue, and who tracks whether labels are ecologically sane or not?'''
 *[[SourceWatch]] [http://sourcewatch.org (.org)] - [[Propaganda]] and [[no body]] detection, since these always work to the detriment of [[some body]].  '''See [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Propaganda SourceWatch:propaganda] and the [[propaganda glossary]] underlying it.