Giant Food
Giant Food is headquartered in Landover, Md. and operates 164 supermarkets in Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia with approximately 20,000 associates. Included within the 164 stores are 155 full-service pharmacies, 82 full-service PNC Banks, and 24 Starbucks locations. With flexible options and convenient solutions, Giant fits all the ways today’s busy consumers want to shop – whether in-store, via Giant Pickup or home delivery from Giant, Delivers which combined serves 157 store locations. For more information on Giant, visit giantfood.com.
Number of Fisheries Used |
Number of Certified Fisheries |
Number of Fisheries in a FIP |
Number of Fisheries Assessed as Low Risk by Nonprofit Science Partner |
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Number of Fisheries Used41 |
Number of Certified Fisheries16 |
Number of Fisheries in a FIP6 |
Number of Fisheries Assessed as Low Risk by Nonprofit Science Partner19 |
Production Methods Used
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Summary
This profile covers all own brand fresh, frozen, and canned seafood sold by Giant Food in 2020. Giant Food has a comprehensive sustainable seafood policy. We are committed to sourcing only seafood from fisheries and farms that are well managed to ensure that fish populations remain healthy and that fishing and farming methods have a minimum environmental and social impact. All seafood we sell, whether it’s fresh, frozen, or canned, must meet important sustainability criteria. We work with the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI), a nonprofit third party, to help us maintain the credibility and transparency of our policy. For both wild-caught and farmed seafood, we will source a product if it has a certification benchmarked by the Global Sustainable Seafood Initiative (GSSI), or if it is from an active fishery or aquaculture improvement project. In cases where neither exists, we will only source a product if it assessed as low risk by GMRI. Low risk sources are managed by competent authorities and have management plans in place that incorporate a science-based approach to ensure sustainability. We only work with suppliers that know where the seafood they provide us comes from, and we require traceability to the source fishery or farm for every item we carry.
Giant Food also requires canned tuna suppliers to comply with the International Sustainable Seafood Foundation conservation measures, and encourages shrimp suppliers to buy from Seafood Task Force members when sourcing from Thailand. Giant Food’s parent company, Ahold Delhaize, is a member of the Seafood Task Force, as well as the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability. Ahold Delhaize is also a signatory to the World Economic Forum Tuna Declaration. Through the Tuna Declaration, we are committed to pursuing traceability to the vessel for all fresh, frozen, and canned tuna from every country.
For more information on our seafood sourcing policy, please visit:
Associated Fisheries
Species and Location |
Production Methods |
Certification or Improvement Project |
Sustainability Ratings |
Notes |
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Species and LocationAcadian redfishSebastes fasciatusGulf of Maine and Georges BankFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReference |
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Species and LocationAlaska pollockTheragra chalcogrammaGulf of AlaskaFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationAmerican anglerLophius americanusUS North Atlantic NorthFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationAmerican lobsterHomarus americanusGulf of Maine and Georges BankFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationAmerican plaiceHippoglossoides platessoidesGulf of Maine and Georges BankFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationAmerican sea scallopPlacopecten magellanicusUS Atlantic - Mid-Atlantic BightFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationAtlantic codGadus morhuaIcelandicFishery countries:Iceland |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationAtlantic croakerMicropogonias undulatusN&S American Atlantic CoastFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationAtlantic herringClupea harengusNova Scotia and Bay of FundyFishery countries:Canada |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationBlue crabCallinectes sapidusChesapeake BayFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationBluefishPomatomus saltatrixW North AtlanticFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationChum salmonOncorhynchus ketaAlaska - Bristol BayFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReferences |
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Species and LocationCoho salmonOncorhynchus kisutchAlaska - Bristol BayFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesCaveat |
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Species and LocationDungeness crabCancer magisterOregonFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationHaddockMelanogrammus aeglefinusGulf of MaineFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationHaddockMelanogrammus aeglefinusIcelandicFishery countries:Iceland |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationJumbo flying squidDosidicus gigasSE PacificFishery countries:Peru |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationLongfin squidLoligo pealeiiNW AtlanticFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationMahi-mahiCoryphaena hippurusEastern Pacific OceanFishery countries:Ecuador |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectFIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReferences |
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Species and LocationMahi-mahiCoryphaena hippurusWestern and Central PacificFishery countries:Taiwan |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectFIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReferences |
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Species and LocationNorth Pacific hakeMerluccius productusNE PacificFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationNorthern brown shrimpPenaeus aztecusNW Atlantic - US FederalFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationNorthern white shrimpPenaeus setiferusNW Atlantic - US FederalFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationPacific codGadus macrocephalusE Bering SeaFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationPacific halibutHippoglossus stenolepisNE Pacific - AlaskaFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationQueen crabChionoecetes opilioNW Atlantic - Newfoundland and LabradorFishery countries:Canada |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationRed porgyPagrus pagrusNW AtlanticFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationSilver hakeMerluccius bilinearisUS Atlantic coast northernFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationSnappers neiLutjanus spp.Aru Bay, Arafura Sea and Eastern of Timor SeaFishery countries:Indonesia |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectFIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReferences Fishery Progress, Indonesia Aru and Arafura demersal fish - longline |
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Species and LocationSockeye salmonOncorhynchus nerkaAlaska - Southeast AlaskaFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesCaveat |
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Species and LocationStriped bassMorone saxatilisUS AtlanticFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationSummer flounderParalichthys dentatusNorthwest AtlanticFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationSwordfishXiphias gladiusSouthwest PacificFishery countries:Vietnam |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectFIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReferences |
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Species and LocationSwordfishXiphias gladiusSouthwest PacificFishery countries:Vietnam |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationVermilion snapperRhomboplites aurorubensGulf of Mexico and Western Central AtlanticFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationWhite hakeUrophycis tenuisGulf of Maine and Georges BankFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsSustainability not rated |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationWinter flounderPseudopleuronectes americanusNW Atlantic CentralFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsNeeds improvement |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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Species and LocationYellowfin soleLimanda asperaBering Sea and Aleutian IslandsFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectCertified |
Sustainability RatingsWell managed |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesCaveat References |
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Species and LocationYellowfin tunaThunnus albacaresIndian OceanFishery countries:Indonesia |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectFIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReferences Fishery Progress, Indonesia Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna - handline |
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Species and LocationYellowfin tunaThunnus albacaresWestern and Central Pacific OceanFishery countries:Vietnam |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectFIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General NotesReferences Fishery Progress, Vietnam yellowfin tuna - longline/handline |
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Species and LocationYellowtail flounderLimanda ferrugineaSouthern New England/Mid AtlanticFishery countries:United States |
Production Methods
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Certification or Improvement ProjectNot certified or in a FIP |
Sustainability RatingsManaged |
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Environmental Notes
General Notes
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