US CHICKEN IMPORT BAN DECISION TO BE DELAYED, MAYBE BY MONTHS
July 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNAL political struggles within the European Union (EU) are delaying agreement over lifting the de facto ban on American poultry meat exports to the EU. There has been opposition by European Commission health officials, who have attached conditions to scrapping rules preventing chlorine treatment of poultry, common in America, and the main barrier preventing US exporters selling into Europe.
In particular, Commission health officials want to restrict permitted chlorine treatment to whole poultry carcasses, not parts and cuts. They want ...
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