Brazilian meat industry has received a huge blow as several countries have started to ban its meat imports following an investigation into corruption by health inspectors and the alleged sale of rotten products. China is the latest of the ...
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Russian food safety agency Rosselkhoznadzo has imposed a temporary ban on meat product imports from ten processing plants in Brazil. The agency said that the processing plants in Brazil have failed to comply with phytosanitary measures, ...
China has lifted a three-year old ban on Brazilian beef imports, paving way for new sales that could generate around $50m. Earlier in 2012, China suspended beef imports from Brazil over a mad cow disease scare. Brazil President Dilma ...
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China has eased its three-year ban on Brazilian beef according to Brazilian Agriculture Department. Eight beef processing plants and one poultry processing plant in Brazil have regain access to China Brazilian beef exports to China were ...
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Brazil is set to recommence meat exports to Saudi Arabia and China by the end of this year, Brazil’s agriculture minister Neri Geller said. This announcement follows China's decision to remove its ban on Brazilian beef and speed up ...
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JBS, a Brazilian beef exporter, has announced that it will resume its plan to raise BRL4bn ($1.8bn) from the initial public offering (IPO) of its pork, poultry and food-processing operations in Brazil as early as next month. Following ...
Egypt and Peru have imposed a ban on imports of beef from Brazil following the confirmation of a case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or mad cow disease in Mato Grosso state, a major beef producer and importer in the country. ...
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Brazilian beef group JBS has completed the acquisition of local indebted beef processor Independencia Group. JBS, which announced last April it wanted to buy the business, today (1 February) confirmed it had concluded the deal made for ...
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Japan, China, South Africa, South Korea and Saudi Arabia have imposed a ban on Brazil beef imports, over concerns of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow disease. This move comes after Brazil's recent report, which revealed ...
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Brazil has launched a new campaign to convince importers that its beef is free from mad cow disease. A report from Brazil's Agriculture ministry had revealed that the carcass of a cow that died in 2010 in southern Brazil carried ...
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Japan has suspended beef imports from Brazil over concerns of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) - a fatal neurodegenerative disease commonly known as mad cow disease. The move comes after the South American nation informed the World ...
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Brazilian beef firm JBS has entered into an agreement to acquire local poultry processor Agroveneto. The deal, announced today (5 November), valued Agroveneto at BRL$128m (US$62.9m), BRL10m of which is payable in JBS shares, the balance ...
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Brazilian beef group JBS has booked an increase in third-quarter profits as sales rose by almost one-quarter in the period. The company said net profit rose to BRL367m (US$178m) in the three months, up from a loss of BRL67.5m in the ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has allowed XL Foods to re-open the facility at the centre of an e. coli scare after an assessment of its food safety controls. XL Foods has had its suspension lifted by CFIA and is now licensed ...
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Australia's leading poultry processor Inghams Enterprises has been put up for sale by its only shareholder Bob Ingham,in a deal which is expected to attract food companies as well as private equity firms. Investec Bank has been appointed ...
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