Tag: meat

• Thursday, April 30th 2020 - 07:41 UTC

  Brazil's Minerva confident of boosting beef sales to US and China

  

  Minerva SA, the largest beef exporter in South America, hopes to further boost foreign sales due to potentially scarce supplies in large producing nations like the United States, Chief Financial Officer Edison Ticle said.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 06:25 UTC

  Argentine beef exports to China fall almost a third in January plus price disputes

  

  Argentine beef exports to its top buyer China fell almost a third in January due to a price dispute with Chinese importers and the effects of a coronavirus outbreak, the head of the country's meat export chamber revealed.

• Tuesday, February 11th 2020 - 07:55 UTC

  Brazilian January inflation at its lowest driven by sharp decline in meat prices

  

  Brazilian inflation kicked off the year on a soft footing, official figures showed, as the IPCA consumer price index posted its smallest January increase since the country’s “Real Plan” was launched more than a quarter of a century ago.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 07:15 UTC

  Brazilian meat industry confident the situation in China will boost demand for Mercosur poultry and beef

  

  Brazil’s meat industry association ABPA said a “perfect storm” of health and food security concerns in China promises to drive up demand for Mercosur meat, giving Brazilian meatpacker shares a boost.

• Saturday, December 7th 2019 - 09:39 UTC

  Rising cost of meat pushes Brazil's November inflation to a high month-on-month increase

  

  Brazilian consumer price inflation bounced back to seven-month highs in November from ultra-low levels the month before, led by the rising cost of meat and regulated prices like electricity, official figures showed on Friday.

• Friday, November 22nd 2019 - 09:11 UTC

  US Congress wants to investigate Brazil's meatpacking giant JBS

  

  A top United States Democratic congresswoman on Thursday asked the Agriculture Department (USDA) to investigate and retract tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts with the U.S. subsidiary of a Brazilian meatpacking company facing federal corruption charges.

• Thursday, October 3rd 2019 - 09:49 UTC

  Operation Weak Flesh: Brazilian meat packer admits to bribing food inspectors

  

  Brazilian meatpacker BRF SA has admitted to bribing food inspectors with bank deposits and health benefits, police said on Tuesday, although the company itself avoided raids as it was cooperating with the latest phase of the corruption probe.

• Tuesday, January 22nd 2019 - 10:06 UTC

  Beware EU consumers: scheme to sell horse meat lasagna

  

  Four people are going on trial in Paris over an alleged scheme that fed consumers across Europe frozen foods containing cheap horse meat fraudulently labelled as pricier beef.

• Monday, January 7th 2019 - 08:54 UTC

  How a Uruguayan town revolutionized the way we eat

  

  BBC has published a piece on the history of Corned Beef and its brand name, Fray Bentos, the city located on the banks of the Uruguay River, and which over a century ago produced what it describes “as the most influential food brands of the 20th century”

• Wednesday, December 5th 2018 - 09:20 UTC

  Bolsonaro's chief of staff investigated over allegations of illegal campaign funding

  

  Brazil's Supreme Court said on Tuesday it had authorized a federal investigation into allegations that the incoming chief of staff for far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro had taken illegal campaign donations.