JBS Outlines Brazilian Beef Shipment Plans to U.S. for 2016 and for 2017

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As previously reported, Brazil has been granted access to the “fresh beef” market in the United States. The United States Department of Agriculture approved shipment for Brazil on August 1, 2016. Fresh beef has now made its way from Brazil with the first shipments landing in Phila-delphia.

JBS S.A. expects to export 100 containers of Brazilian fresh beef to the U.S. per month beginning in the first half of 2017, equivalent to about 2,500 metric tons, the world's largest beef processor announced.

The first container of JBS' Brazilian fresh beef sent to the U.S. landed in Philadelphia on Friday (14th), with 25 metric tonnes of meat produced in the company's Campo Grande unit, in Brazil's Mato Grosso do Sul state.

For the rest of 2016, JBS plans to send 10 containers of Brazilian fresh beef to the U.S. per week, at 25 metric tons per container.

The U.S. Congress had previously had language in the Agricultural Appropriates bill that precluded Animal and Plant, Health Inspection Service and the Food Safety Inspection Service from importing fresh beef from Brazil. However, congress weakened and largely removed this restriction in the omnibus bill last year (2015).

Concerned consumers for food safety and agriculture producers concerned for Foot and Mouth disease transmission are encouraged to contact their congressional leaders with any questions or concerns.