Apple refuses that they cleared Foxconn’s iPod manufacturing facility

Mac makers Apple Computers has clarified that they had not cleared Foxconn’s iPod manufacturing facility in Longhua, China of any breaches of its supplier code of conduct as claimed by the company.

Apple spokesman Steve Dowling added in a statement to a media group: “We are still investigating the working conditions at Foxconn’s manufacturing plant in Longhua. This is a thorough audit, which includes employee working and living conditions, interviews of employees and managers, compliance with overtime and wage regulations, and other areas as necessary to insure adherence to Apple’s supplier code of conduct.”

He further added: “Apple’s supplier code of conduct sets the bar higher than accepted industry standards and we take allegations of noncompliance very seriously.”

Apple landed into this controversy when a media report on bad living conditions for workers in iPod factories in China was released in the public.