Tag: Brazilian meatpackers

• Tuesday, June 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazil halts exports of beef: case of “atypical” mad cow disease

  

  Brazil has temporarily halted beef exports to China following an atypical case of mad cow disease in leading farm state Mato Grosso, the agriculture ministry said on Monday. China, Brazil's largest beef importer by sales, spent US$1.5 billion on Brazilian beef last year, totalling 322,400 tons or almost 20% of all shipments, according to local beef exporters association Abiec.