US POULTRY EXPORTERS SAY FROZEN POULTRY BAN "NOT FEASIBLE"

BY MJ DESCHAMPS A MAJOR American poultry producer has accused Russia of effectively locking all kinds of chicken out of the Russian market through its promised ban on imports and sales of deep-frozen poultry. Russia's Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onishchenko has promised a new ban from January 1. The US Agriculture Department attacked it as having "no scientific basis or food safety rationale". US chicken producer Sanderson Farms is now saying the ban is not feasible, and would damage trade both internationally and domestically. Its CFO Mike ...


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