JBS has been fined $29,000 after the United States Department of Agriculture found scales at its plant at Cactus, Texas, were not accurate.
The company fixed the scales as soon as government inspectors notified the company in a plant that it bought from Swift Beef Company.
JBS has had far larger problems in Brazil where brothers who hold controlling shares in the company have admitted bribing officials and are paying off a $25-billion fine.
The U.S. subsidiary is also manager of the former XL Packers Ltd. plant in Alberta which it purchased in a distress sale following the largest beef recall in Canadian history.
