JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, has reduced cattle purchases from ranches “with irregularities” such as illegal deforestation, Reuters reports.

Federal prosecutors’ latest audit in the Amazonian state of Para revealed that 6% of JBS’s audited cattle purchases came from farms potentially blacklisted for environmental or human-rights violations. This is a significant improvement from the previous auditing cycle, where nearly 17% of audited cattle purchases had irregularities.

JBS aims to achieve 100% compliance.

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