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Apple, Samsung Called on to Stop Use of Deadly Chemicals in Factories

NEWS ANALYSIS: Smartphones need to ditch carcinogens. Could being the change-maker be the best marketing for companies desperate for distinction?

Consumer health and fitness features are expected to be a new area of focus for Samsung and Apple, as each works to find a foothold it can use to advance itself past the other. But it's the health of the workers producing the components for these rivals' devices that's begun to gain some attention.

Samsung recently shuffled around six of the seven executives in its Future Strategies office, the Korea Times reported April 30, citing an executive who said the moves would help Samsung better address key issues. These include, said the report, securing parts suppliers for the Galaxy S5 and addressing the "stalled negotiations with leukemia-stricken former employees."

According to multiple reports, workers at Samsung and Apple factories are coming down with aggressive forms of leukemia, due to chemicals they're exposed to on the job.

Bloomberg Business, in an April 10 report, told the story of two young women who got jobs in a Samsung factory in South Korea "dipping computer chips into the same vat of chemicals." Neither had any family history of the illness; both died of acute myeloid leukemia.

Instead of making gestures of compensation to the families, said the report, Samsung was "hostile" and denied any connection between the girls' illnesses and their work.

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Paistab, et teema sai järje - Samsung on nõus kompensatsiooni maksma:

Samsung pledges compensation for cancer sufferers
Samsung says it will compensate chip factory workers who developed cancer while working for the firm.

The company issued its first apology in a long-running dispute and withdrew from a legal bid to avoid paying out.

It brings the conflict one step closer to resolution only a month after talks appeared to have stalled.

But Samsung's chief executive Kwon Oh-hyun stopped short of admitting a direct link between working at the firm and developing leukaemia.

Mr Kwon said: "Several workers at our production facilities suffered from leukaemia and other incurable diseases, which also led to some deaths.

"We should have settled the issue earlier, and we are deeply heartbroken that we failed to do so and express our deep apology."

At a press conference, he said Samsung hoped to "resolve the issue with sincerity and earnestness". In a statement, he added: "We will make due compensation to the victims and the families."

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