Australia-JBS-Swift to face Senate Committee on allegations over Tasmaniab operations.

The globe’s largest meat processing company, JBS Swift, is expected to front an Australian Senate hearing to answers questions about alleged abuse of market power.

It follows a complaint made to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in February about the Brazilian-owned company.

A spokesman from Tasmanian hide and skin processor Cuthbertson Brothers, Doug Dickinson, alleged yesterday that production had been halved because the business could no longer tender for skins from Longford abattoir, which Swift bought last year.

At a hearing into meat marketing Tuesday night, NSW Senator Bill Heffernan said inquiries would be made by Senators, possibly by either the agricultural committee or the meat marketing inquiry.

"We want to hear both sides of the story," Mr Heffernan told Muriel Hayes last night