INTRODUCTION PEOPLE COMMUNITY PLANET GOVERNANCE APPENDIX supply chain management tantalum or gold. The results of this inquiry are included in to our customers. As part of this commitment, we Our vendors and buying agents are required to adhere our annual Conflict Minerals Report filed with the SEC. have established certain chemical standards, including to our Supplier Code of Conduct. The Supplier Code of restriction lists, to identify and reduce the use of certain Conduct details policies relating to child labor, involuntary product standards chemical materials in the products we sell. These lists apply labor, human trafficking, and slavery, hiring, employment, We maintain standards on cotton sourcing, animal welfare, to all vendors, including for our owned brands, national and disciplinary practices, non-discrimination, health and and restricted substances and chemicals. We expect our brands and third parties. In moving to reduce or eliminate safety, environmental protection, wages and benefits, products to meet all applicable regulatory requirements these chemicals, we expect suppliers to select ingredients working hours, and Associate relations. and industry safety standards, including but not limited identified as Safer Chemicals by the U.S. Environmental to American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Protection Agency (EPA) Safer Choice program, or to We validate social compliance for all factories standards and additional corporate requirements. use EPA Safer Choice criteria or the safer alternatives manufacturing our Owned Brand products and all factories marketplace to evaluate and select safe substitutions. where we are the importer of record. Through our audit Cotton Sourcing program, we review existing third-party audits and on-site We do not knowingly buy or sell products that were made, Restricted Substance List (RSL) includes substances factory audits. Our audit program covers all aspects of our in whole or in part, using forced or underage labor. Since that may or may not be subject to current legislation Supplier Code of Conduct, including the assessment of forced and underage labor is actively used in the cotton but are of potential concern to human health and the potential human trafficking and slavery risks. fields of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Xinjiang, China, we environment. Vendors are expected to review and will not knowingly accept products containing cotton from exercise efforts to reduce or eliminate the chemicals We partner with a third-party to help facilitate and manage listed on the RSL. our audit program, whose on-site audits include meeting those regions. with factory managers, a factory tour, and worker interviews See our Restricted Substances List. outside the presence of factory management, as well as Animal Welfare document review. Each supplier is notified in advance of a We are committed to sourcing materials of animal origin in Priority Chemical List (PCL) is a subset of the RSL two-week window when an on-site audit is expected to take a humane, ethical, and sustainable manner and expect the identifying certain chemicals of concern in household place, but the actual audit is unannounced. highest standards of animal welfare, and proper handling of cleaning, personal care and cosmetic products. animals used in the production of products we sell. Vendors must remove or reduce the use of chemicals We engage in dialogue with our suppliers through the listed on the PCL and select safe substitutions. remediation and RFP negotiation process as well as We set high standards for our products, and expect social auditing. any products derived from animals to be produced in See our Priority Chemical List. accordance with the Five Freedoms of the Farm Animal Flame Retardant List prohibits the use of certain flame We have also adopted supplier requirements as part of Welfare Committee (FAWC). Detailed information is retardants in all products. our Conflict Minerals Program, as set forth in our Conflict provided in our Animal Welfare Policy. Minerals Policy. As part of this program, we annually See our Flame Retardant List. require sourcing and related information from certain Restricted Substances and Priority Chemicals suppliers in the form of a survey conducted by a third We are committed to providing our customers with safe party covering in-scope Owned Brand products supplied and sustainable products, and our Product Safety & to Bed Bath & Beyond that may contain tin, tungsten, Compliance team works to deliver safe, quality products Bed Bath & Beyond 2021 ESG Report 34