Compliance with the Meat TAC in the Amazon
The disclosure of the results of Meat TAC audits allows for an objective assessment of whether slaughterhouses are complying with the terms of the conduct adjustment agreement to which they are signatories. Among several criteria, the agreement signed by slaughterhouses and the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in some states stipulates that slaughterhouses must publish updated information on their supplier farms and must hire an independent auditor to analyze the compliance of their cattle purchases.
Some companies have disclosed the names and locations of their supplier farms in compliance with the requirements of the Meat TAC (Table 13).
Table 13. Meatpackers that have disclosed the list of supplier farms
Source: Results of the second cycle of unified audits by the Federal Public
Prosecutor’s Office and the Boi na Linha initiative, 2025.
The Radar Verde assessment also identified companies that conducted independent audits, as required by the Conduct Adjustment Agreement (Tables 14, 15, and 16). Figure 7 shows the spatial distribution of these companies.
Figure 7. Distribution of slaughterhouses in the Legal Amazon according to participation in audits under the Meat Conduct Adjustment Agreement in 2024
Source: Results of the second cycle of unified audits by the Federal Prosecutor’s
Office and the Boi na Linha initiative, 2025.
The following tables list meatpackers according to the type of audit conducted on their cattle purchases in the Legal Amazon.
Table 14. Meatpackers summoned by the MPF that hired independent auditors and disclosed the results
Source: Results of the second cycle of unified audits by the Federal Prosecutor’s
Office and the Boi na Linha initiative, 2025.
The obligation to submit independent audits under the Meat TAC applies exclusively to signatory companies that the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office formally summons. Table 15 shows the meatpackers that, although not summoned, chose to hire independent auditors and publicly disclose their results.
Table 15. Meatpackers were not summoned by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office which hired independent auditors and disclosed the results
Source: Results of audits by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Boi na Linha initiative, 2025.
There are also companies that, although they have been summoned or have a significant slaughter volume, have not submitted an independent audit; in these cases, the assessment was conducted through an automatic audit. The list of these companies is shown in Table 16 below.
Table 16. Meatpackers without independent audits, but with scores obtained through automatic audits
Source: Results of audits by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s
Office (MPF) and the Boi na Linha initiative, 2025.
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