Kommersant, Novye Izvestia
600,000 metric tons, or 20% of the Russian market.State Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack told reporters last Friday that U.S.-Russian relations may become strained over poultry differences. He also claimed that many Russian producers use chlorine in poultry processing.
However, local companies denied his allegations. "Nearly all Russian poultry producers have stopped using chlorine over the past year. They treat meat with other agents based on organic acids," said Albert Davleyev, vice president of the USAPEEC International Poultry Development Program, adding that those substances are several times more expensive than chlorine.
Russian poultry farmers are not unanimous on the expediency of banning chlorine treatment of their products. Their representatives gathered in December to work out and approve industry regulations, but failed to arrive at a compromise.
Pavel Sorokin, professor at Moscow State Agriculture Engineering University, said microbiological
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