| Abstract: |
A Brazilian prosecutor investigating whether food processor BRF SA colluded with a laboratory group to evade food safety rules gave the country's agriculture ministry a 10-day deadline to share findings from its own administrative probe related to the scandal, according to a court filing dated Thursday. Federal prosecutor Lyana Helena Joppert Kalluf has also lifted a confidentiality order on part of the information related to a criminal probe she oversees, a move designed to give "transparency" to the ongoing proceedings, the filing showed. The prosecutor is requesting information related to the agriculture ministry's move to suspend Mérieux NutriSciences Brasil's laboratories following the start of a federal police investigation into an alleged scheme to avoid food safety checks. |
