TAIPEI -- Hon Hai Precision today denied a report that the company is the focus of Apple's announced environmental audit of its Chinese suppliers.

Apple and the Beijing-based Institute of Public and Environmental Affairs will reportedly conduct a monitored audit of the environmental pollution control at plants in China, The Financial Times reported.

But Foxconn, whose worker relations has drawn negative worldwide media attention to its leading customer, said its Chinese operations are not the focus of the audit.

Apple's other printed circuit board fabricators and assemblers, according to a list the company published late last year, include Broadcom, Career Technology, Compeq, Flextronics, Jabil, Lite-On, Meiko, MFLEX, Multek, Nan Ya, Nippon Mektron, Oriental Printed Circuits (now TTM), Pegatron, Unimicron, and Universal Scientific Industrial.