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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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Updated: OSI was last meeting on Almanza’s FSIS calendar

By News Desk on August 18, 2017

The USDA’S Food Safety and Inspection Service Friday amended its Officials’ Calendar of Meetings for July 2017, showing Kenneth Petersen of the OSI Group as the last party outside the federal government to meet with…
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JBS taps Almanza to lead its food safety program worldwide

By News Desk on August 4, 2017

The mega-meat company JBS, racked recently by involvement in Brazil’s development bank and inspection bribery scandals that cost its top shareholders billions, is turning to a freshly retired U.S. food safety official to regain public…
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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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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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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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Brazil’s meat scandal expands while international market reaction is mixed

By Dan Flynn on March 29, 2017

brazilfederalpolice_406x250The investigation by Federal Police in Brazil has led to the suspension of three more processing plants this week over the alleged corruption in meat industry. That raises the number of closed meat processing plants…
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Letter From the Editor: Deciding to Walk the Transparency Talk

By Dan Flynn on July 5, 2015

Back from my trip to south Georgia, there was a pile of Greeley Tribunes to catch up with. Usually that doesn’t take long, but to my surprise, JBS USA, which is headquartered on the west…
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