Russia Bans U.S. Poultry

Russia introduced new sanitary standards, severely restricting chlorine as an anti-microbial treatment in poultry production. As a result, the import of poultry from the U.S., which commonly uses chlorine, was banned effective January 1. In 2009 the U.S. was the source of 79% of Russia's poultry imports.


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