It is mouth guards from manufacturers and suppliers where the risk is very high that they have forced-labor pre-printed Uighurs in production.
SVT can show this together with the excavation editorial staff OCCRP.
One million Uighurs, a Muslim, ethnic minority, have been detained for brainwashing and rock-solid surveillance, according to experts.
In addition, they are forced to work with cotton harvests and in factories for, among other things, protective equipment.
Four pharmacy companies in Sweden, Apotea, Apoteksgruppen, Kronans and Lloyd's, have sold mouth guards from Zhende Medical.
It is a large company with both subsidiaries and raw material suppliers in Xinjiang, home region for the Uighurs and location for the cotton fields and camps.
Stops the products immediately
"This is another example of a company that has the resources and claims to operate in a business ethics manner, but which unfortunately buys materials from suppliers with an imminent risk of forced labor," says Louise Brown, an expert in business ethics and a Chinese expert.
When SVT asks about the pharmacies' sales of mouth guards from Zhende, the products are stopped immediately.
None of the pharmacies claim to know the information about forced labor.
They regret the purchases and are now investigating the matter with their suppliers.
- I understand if customers react strongly to the suspicions, we did too, says Pär Swärdson, CEO of Apotea.
Welcome review
"Apoteksgruppen obviously distances itself from all forms of forced labor and oppression," writes Anna Bergstedt, press officer at Apoteksgruppen.
"We welcome the review you are doing and hope that it can affect working conditions at all stages of production," Bergstedt writes.
"We regret that we sold a product that may have been manufactured under unacceptable conditions," writes Andreas Rosenlund, information director at Kronan's pharmacy.
Lloyds refers to the parent company McKesson Europe, which writes that “the company's suppliers must live up to McKesson's sustainability principles.
This includes safeguarding worker protection and ethical principles ”.
Zhende has not answered SVT's questions.