SOUTH KOREA LIFTS SUSPENSION OF CHICKEN IMPORTS BY BRAZIL’S BRF
March 1st, 2017
South Korea on March 21 lifted an import ban on chicken from BRF, a major Brazilian poultry exporter that has been at the center of a food safety scandal involving meatpackers allegedly paying off inspectors to overlook practices including processing rotten meat.
Although the import ban on BRF implemented a day earlier has been scrapped, strengthened import inspections of Brazilian chicken meat remain in place, including an increase in the spot inspection rate from 1% to 15%, according to a Korean-language note from the ministry of agriculture, food and rural ...
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