Tag: meat

• Wednesday, June 23rd 2021 - 05:30 UTC

  Global meat processor moves into Paraguay: plans an abattoir that handles 1,200 cattle per day

  

  Brazil's global meat processor, Marfrig has purchased land to build a major abattoir in Paraguay. Landlocked Paraguay is a full member of Mercosur, who together with partners Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, has become the world's leading meat export region.

• Monday, June 21st 2021 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine freezes meat prices, exports to resume next week but not of all cuts

  

  Argentine Minister of Productive Development Matías Kulfas Sunday admitted the administration of President Alberto Fernández plans to both ban exports of the beef cuts most coveted by local consumers and freeze domestic prices until late this year.

• Saturday, June 19th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  New study finds links between red meat diet and colorectal cancer incidence

  

  AFP – A new paper in the journal Cancer Discovery has identified specific patterns of DNA damage triggered by diets rich in red meat - further implicating the food as a carcinogen while heralding the possibility of detecting cancer early and designing new treatments.

• Friday, April 30th 2021 - 08:20 UTC

  Paraguay finds new markets for meat and plastic products

  

  Paraguay has exported US $ 426,223 worth of meat, plastic and aluminium to new markets in the region and Europe in the first quarter of 2021, it was reported Thursday.

• Tuesday, August 11th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  Brazilian food processor JBS hiring additional workers in many plants plagued with the coronavirus

  

  Food processor JBS SA is hiring 5,200 additional workers in Brazil, seeking to boost output in a key export base while fending off the threat of the novel coronavirus, which disrupted some its plants in the second quarter.

• Monday, July 20th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Brazilian meat plants perfect “coronavirus breeding centers”, according to Labor Ministry

  

  Meat plants have been a major factor in the spread of coronavirus in at least three different regions of Brazil, according to the country’s experts. According to the new study conducted by the federal prosecution department the Public Ministry of Labour (MPT), the conditions at the meat plants have directly contributed towards the rapid transmission of the virus.

• Tuesday, June 23rd 2020 - 10:26 UTC

  Controversy in Brazil over guidelines for workers at meatpackers, where there has been a spike of Covid-19 cases

  

  Brazilian government on Friday published new guidelines for meatpackers after a spike of COVID-19 cases at food plants, including keeping workers at least one meter apart, but labor prosecutors criticized the steps as inadequate.

• Friday, May 29th 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Spread of coronavirus threatening Brazilian slaughterhouses

  

  Brazilian food company BRF SA said the potential closure of slaughterhouses due the spread of the novel coronavirus at meat production sites would make it impossible to keep output at current levels.

• Thursday, May 14th 2020 - 07:46 UTC

  Record US port exports to China while US consumers face shortages

  

  U.S. President Donald Trump ordered meat processing plants to stay open to protect the nation's food supply even as workers got sick and died. Yet the plants have increasingly been exporting to China while U.S. consumers face shortages, analysis of government data showed.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2020 - 08:18 UTC

  Beijing disappointed with Australia: suspends meat imports from four abattoirs

  

  China has suspended meat imports from four Australian abattoirs, fuelling concerns that escalating tensions between the two nations are damaging Australia's most important trading relationship.