22.01.2010

Chicken importers in Russia are now looking for alternative suppliers after negotiations with U.S. experts stopped on Jan. 21 without a commitment to reopen the U.S. poultry’s industry’s largest export market.
Russia, which spent $800 million on U.S. poultry in 2008, has banned imports from its largest supplier on concerns related to the use of chlorine in treating the meat a practice routinely used in the United States to kill bacteria that can cause food poisoning.
U.S. chicken meat can be replaced by poultry supplies from South America, EU or Middle East countries.