All Brazilian meat imports suspended by the United States
Due to “Recurring concerns about the safety of products intended for the American market” has resulted in the suspension of The United States has suspended Brazilian meat imports over.
In March 2017, several countries had banned Brazilian meat, after prosecutors had said that the health inspectors there had been taking bribes to approve sub-standard meat.
On the other hand the US had not banned the meat imports but placed checks on the meat imported from Brazil. However, the US now says that a significant proportion of Brazilian meat had failed safety tests.
According to the US Department of Agriculture, in the past three months “The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has refused entry to 11% of Brazilian fresh beef products“, in a statement. It added that “That figure is substantially higher than the rejection rate of 1% of shipments from the rest of the world.“
Since the end of March a total of 860,000 kg (1.9 million pounds) of Brazilian meat products have been rejected by the American authorities over “public health concerns, sanitary conditions, and animal health issues.“
Brazil which sells more than $12bn a year is the world’s biggest red meat and poultry exporter.
The Brazilian exports go mainly to China, the European Union and the United States.
Allegations were made public, following a Federal Police investigations, and afterwards exports fell sharply.
Operation Weak Flesh had been launched in the early hours of 17th March 2017, in six of Brazilian states. The operation had been launched after a two-year investigation.
Deploying 1,000 officers, federal police had carried out raids in 194 locations. According to the investigators some managers had bribed health inspectors and politicians to get government certificates for their products.
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