Russia Bans U.S. Poultry Over Chlorine
With as much as 30,000 tons of American poultry in the pipeline to Russia, the government in Moscow imposed a ban on future U.S. poultry imports on New Year’s Day.
Russia joins the European Union in prohibiting the use of chlorine as an anti-microbial treatment in poultry production, which is commonly used in the United States.
American poultry exports to Russia are the biggest component of U.S. agricultural exports to the former Soviet Union.
