A broiler chick disinfection shop in a poultry plant in the Leningrad region
Photo: Mikhail Razuvaev
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Russia Cut Import of U.S. Poultry
Russia excluded 19 enterprises of the U.S. from the list of poultry importers starting from September 1, 2008. The given reason was poor quality of the product.
Residual arsenic powder, salmonella, colibacillus as well as other microorganisms that are dangerous to health had been repeatedly found in excessive quantity in the poultry imported from the United States, said Russia’s agricultural supervisor Rosselkhoznadzor.
According to the RF Agriculture Minister Alexei Gordeev, crossing out 19 poultry suppliers of the U.S. won’t affect the market. Under the ministry’s forecast, “the 2008 output will surge by over 300,000 tons vs 2007.” The quotas on poultry and pork import to Russia could be reduced by hundreds of thousand tons, Gordeev said earlier.
The response of Washington was tough. Joseph Biden, who is the vice-president candidate in the United States, said that, by imposing the ban, Russia manifested its unpreparedness to follow trading rules.
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