FriGol, one of Brazil’s leading and most traditional beef processors, has once again achieved 100% compliance with the criteria established by the Legal Meat Conduct Adjustment Agreement (TAC), in an audit supervised by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office (MPF) in Pará. This is the fourth consecutive time the company has achieved this result.
The assessment considered cattle acquired by FriGol from direct suppliers between 2023 and 2024. The analysis confirmed that the animals came from properties that do not produce in areas with illegal deforestation, on indigenous lands, or in conservation units, and that the suppliers are not on the list of organizations involved with slave labor.
The audit process was based on the Animal Transit Guides (GTA) for cattle originating from the Amazon biome and slaughtered at FriGol’s facilities in São Félix do Xingu and Água Azul do Norte, in Pará.
This is the seventh cycle of audits carried out by the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Pará and the third unified cycle of the livestock economic chain in the Legal Amazon, conducted using the same criteria in all states of the region.
“The result demonstrates the consistency of our work in monitoring direct suppliers, which began in 2017, but our main challenge now is to extend this control to indirect suppliers. We have been making progress on this front with the use of technologies and initiatives that allow us to expand traceability and compliance throughout the chain. Our goal is to continuously evolve in this process, contributing to an increasingly monitored and responsible supply chain,” highlights Carlos Corrêa, Financial and Sustainability Director.
Progress in monitoring indirect suppliers
Monitoring indirect suppliers at all levels of the supply chain is one of the main challenges in the sector. FriGol has set a goal of achieving 100% monitoring by 2030, using the same protocols applied to direct suppliers, in all biomes and for all production units.
As part of this commitment, the company has brought forward to 2025 its goal of mitigating deforestation among its Tier 1 indirect suppliers. In Pará, monitoring of 100% of these suppliers began in 2023, using technologies such as the Visipec system (NWF Brazil), which cross-references information from the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) with the public database of Animal Transit Guides (GTAs). By 2025, the compliance rate reached 93%.
FriGol also works in conjunction with public authorities, industry institutions, and the production chain to contribute to the advancement of monitoring protocols.
The company is aligned with Febraban’s Sarb 26 guidelines and has been disclosing its compliance results since 2023.
Furthermore, FriGol supports private initiatives focused on the individual monitoring of animals. Since 2024, it has participated in the Individual Traceability and Indirect Monitoring Program (Primi), which seeks to ensure socio-environmental compliance from the animal’s birth to slaughter. The company’s suppliers have already adhered to the protocol, which is also implemented in FriGol’s feedlot programs.
In 2025, the company expanded its work on this agenda with the launch of FriGol Farm, a program that supports livestock farmers in monitoring their suppliers and offers support for commercial requalification and land regularization.
Monitoring across all biomes
FriGol’s socio-environmental monitoring work covers all the biomes where the company operates and is not limited to the state of Pará. The company monitors 100% of its direct suppliers in all these biomes.
In this process, FriGol was the first company in the sector to implement, in July 2023, the Voluntary Monitoring Protocol for Cattle Suppliers in the Cerrado, even before the protocol’s final publication, which occurred in April 2024 and was subsequently joined by other companies in the sector. The initiative is coordinated by the organizations Proforest, Imaflora, and the National Wildlife Federation (NWF).
