Amnesty International revealed that a former JBS supply chain auditor denounced the company for falsely claiming that its operations in Brazil’s Amazon region are free of deforestation.
In correspondence with Amnesty International, the independent auditor DNV GL Business Assurance—based in Norway and hired by JBS to audit its supply chain between 2017 and 2019—confirmed that it had never audited JBS’s indirect suppliers in Brazil. The company also stated that “the assessment report issued by DNV GL cannot be used as evidence of good practices throughout the supply chain.”