Economics
Brazil's Tainted-Meat Probe Leaves World Hungry for Chicken
- Major importers ban Brazil shipments after food-safety scandal
- ‘There’s no country’ that may be able to fill the supply void
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Where’s the chicken? That’s the question a number of the world’s biggest poultry importers could find themselves asking after slapping bans on shipments from Brazil, the world’s No. 1 supplier.
A food-safety probe against some of the biggest Brazilian meat companies has prompted countries from China to South Africa to Mexico to place restrictions on shipments from the South American nation. That may leave a major hole in the world chicken trade since Brazil accounts for about 40 percent of global exports.