In January 2016, Philip Morris International (PMI) requested Control Union to conduct an external assessment of the Burley tobacco growing operations of its supplier Alliance One Brazil (AOB) in Western Santa Catarina, Brazil. The assessment evaluated the labor practices at contracted farms, and whether these were meeting the standards of the Agricultural Labor Practices (ALP) Code. 1 Control Union (CU) also evaluated AOB’s internal capacity to implement the ALP Program and their understanding of farm practices, and how issues were being identified, recorded and addressed.