RUSSIA PONDERS BAN ON EU MEAT IMPORTS DUE TO SCHMALLENBERG VIRUS
February 1st, 2012
BY EUGENE VOROTNIKOV, IN ST PETERSBURG
RUSSIAN authorities have defended their decision to temporarily restrict imports of cattle from Britain, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France from February 1 over the Schmallenberg virus and warn a meat ban may follow.
Alexei Alexeyenko spokesman for the Russian federal service for veterinary and phytosanitary surveillance (Rosselkhoznadzor) told the Meat Trades Journal: "The risk of human infection has not yet been identified. The EU countries are currently conducting researches and we know that other viruses ...
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