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While Apple, with some reservations, gave the plant a clean bill of health, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU)'s director of human and trade union rights, Janek Kuczkiewicz, told the BBC that it has 'serious reservations' about the report.

'We are not impressed either by the report or by the findings of Apple,' Kuczkiewicz said. 'Apple interviewed just 100 people out of the estimated 30,000 iPod workers. We do not know the conditions in which the interviews were held.'

Kuczkiewicz said that it should be the workers' role to monitor standards, not Apple's.

'We would like to remind Apple there are other labour standards - freedom from discrimination, freedom of association and freedom to bargain collectively,' she said.