Judge John R. Tunheim of the U.S. District Court of Minnesota has approved a $20 million settlement in a civil suit alleging price-fixing that affected consumers.
Previously, JBS USA settled with wholesalers for $25 million and with a class of indirect purchasers for $13 million.
Lawsuits filed in 2018 accused a range of meatpackers of collectively raising pork prices and exchanging cost data and other information disseminated by Agristats Inc.
Remaining plaintiffs include Clemens Food Group, Hormel Foods Corp., Indiana Packers Corp. Seaboard Foods, LLC., Triumph Foods, LLC., Tyson Foods, and Agristats, Inc.