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Study finds 4 of 13 beef plants sampled in Brazil were contaminated with Listeria

By News Desk on January 22, 2020

Note on correction: the headline has been corrected. Four of nine plants tested positive.
Researchers have estimated the prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in beef from the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, which is the largest…
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U.S. audit finds food safety problems continue for Brazil’s meat

By Dan Flynn on November 16, 2017

The first U.S. audit of Brazil’s food safety system since Operation Weak Flesh exposed corruption in the South American nation’s meat industry fell short of being clean.

In transmitting the audit on Nov. 9, USDA’s…
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Exotix says JBS weathered the crisis; public offering possible

By News Desk on October 25, 2017

The Chinese symbol for crisis is made up of symbols for both danger and opportunity.

And the Brazilian meat packing giant JBS S.A. has certainly been in a crisis during most of 2017, but an…
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Batista bribery saga may end with reorganization of JBS assets

By News Desk on October 13, 2017

As chief operating officer of JBS SA, Gilberto Tomazoni is second only to 84-year old founder Jose Batista Sobrinho at the world’s largest meatpacking company. The patriarch of the billionaire dynasty returned to JBS after…
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U.S. stops imports of Brazilian beef for food safety concerns

By Coral Beach on June 22, 2017

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has suspended imports of all fresh beef from Brazil because of recurring food safety problems documented since March, when the agency began inspecting 100 percent of all meat from the…
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U.S. cattlemen see opportunity to reopen JBS anti-trust issue

By News Desk on June 12, 2017

Some U.S. cattle ranchers are seeing an opportunity in the way JBS Corp. has gotten itself tied up in Brazil’s political scandal. JBS USA is the wholly owned subsdiary of JBS S.A., the Brazilian corporation…
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Batistas agree to pay largest ‘leniency fine’ in Brazil’s history

By Dan Flynn on June 1, 2017

Beef brothers Joesley and Wesley Batista appear to be surviving the scandal that may bring down Brazilian President Michel Temer.  Shareholder challenges and reviews by U.S. regulators could still be ahead for the meatpackers in…
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Brazilian beef ban petition fails to generate much interest

By Dan Flynn on May 26, 2017

That petition on the White House’s “We the People” website calling for the United States to ban Brazilian beef was looking for 100,000 signatures. It fell a little short.

In fact it was short by…
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Presidential bribes likely to slow JBS USA’s independence day

By Dan Flynn on May 24, 2017

When Federal Police in Brazil moved on several meatpacking plants on March 17, where meat inspectors were suspected of being on the take, no one could have predicted the probe would shortly be felt as…
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USDA beefs up scrutiny of Brazilian beef amid bribery scandal

By News Desk on March 23, 2017

brazilfederalpolice_406x250None of the slaughter or processing facilities targeted by the Federal Police in Brazil have shipped meat products to the United States, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

Nevertheless, FSIS immediately instituted…
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