Brazil hormone beef EU alert. Dutch authorities have seized multiple shipments of Brazilian beef contaminated with estradiol—a banned growth hormone—after over 60 tons entered the bloc through Dutch ports. Worse: much of it has already been distributed and consumed.
Six shipments. 62,781 kilograms. Already sold. Two European companies imported the contaminated meat and distributed it across the EU internal market before regulators detected the violation. Two additional 25-ton shipments were blocked at the border—too late to stop the first wave. Get the full investigation into Europe's latest food safety scandal on Plexus News: https://plexusnews.com/2026/02/brazil-hormone-beef-eu/
At Plexus News, we track how regulatory failures expose consumers to risk. This is what happens when oversight collapses and imports go unchecked.
