Russia halted beef and chicken meat imports from several plants in Brazil, including JBS’. The informations are available at the website of the Russian sanitary agency (www.fsvps.ru), Rosselkhoznadzor.
The site informed the prohibition is effective as of September 8, 2010 for three JBS’ plants in Brazil, after oxytetraciclyne residues and bacterias were detected in the products, and for one plant in Argentina, also tested positive for oxytetraciclyne.
Brazil has the Russian approval for 126 beef, 104 chicken and 62 pork plants. A leading meat importer, Russia, uses to block the meat imports from their suppliers in the event of any relevant sanitary problems in the country of origin of the products and/or when the products are tested positive for drugs or foreign residues. Usually the imports are resumed once the problems are solved.
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