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Brazil president meets ministers, ambassadors over rotten meat
Source: Agence France-Presse
Brazil president meets ministers, ambassadors over rotten meat
Eugenia LOGIURATTO
AFP 19 March 2017
President Michel Temer was to hold crisis talks Sunday with his cabinet and foreign ambassadors over allegations that corrupt Brazilian producers have been selling rotten meat around the world for years.
The revelation on Friday of a two-year police probe into alleged bribery of health inspectors to certify tainted food as fit for consumption has struck at the heart of the world's leading exporter of beef and chicken.
Temer, whose government is already battered by a huge embezzlement scandal and fallout from Brazil's deepest recession in history, was to huddle first with meatpacking representatives and his ministers of agriculture and foreign trade.
Next up will be ambassadors from countries that are major importers of Brazilian meat.
Brazilian multinationals caught up in the growing scandal insisted on Saturday that their products were safe, but the scandal has sparked growing public fears. It comes at a sensitive time, as Brazil and other members of South America's Mercosur group are pushing for a trade deal with the European Union, a big market for Brazilian meat.
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Eugenia LOGIURATTO
AFP 19 March 2017
President Michel Temer was to hold crisis talks Sunday with his cabinet and foreign ambassadors over allegations that corrupt Brazilian producers have been selling rotten meat around the world for years.
The revelation on Friday of a two-year police probe into alleged bribery of health inspectors to certify tainted food as fit for consumption has struck at the heart of the world's leading exporter of beef and chicken.
Temer, whose government is already battered by a huge embezzlement scandal and fallout from Brazil's deepest recession in history, was to huddle first with meatpacking representatives and his ministers of agriculture and foreign trade.
Next up will be ambassadors from countries that are major importers of Brazilian meat.
Brazilian multinationals caught up in the growing scandal insisted on Saturday that their products were safe, but the scandal has sparked growing public fears. It comes at a sensitive time, as Brazil and other members of South America's Mercosur group are pushing for a trade deal with the European Union, a big market for Brazilian meat.
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