Egypt said on Saturday it would resume importing meat from Brazil after a brief suspension following allegations that exporters in the Latin American country had sold tainted beef and poultry.
“We suspended it (this week) until we found out what happened and now it’s back, but we won’t import anything from slaughter houses or factories that have a problem,” said Mona Mehrez, a deputy to the agriculture minister.
Brazilian meat exports were worth $63 million a day until last week’s announcement by police of “Operation Weak Flesh,” which revealed that some meatpackers had paid crooked inspectors to pass off rotten and adulterated meat as safe.
Brazil’s government had appealed Wednesday to the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) 163 other members not to impose “arbitrary” bans on the country’s more than $13 billion meat export industry.
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