It’s berry season. Time for some chlorine.
No, we’re not talking about chlorine as in sunglasses and swimming pools but rather chlorine as in berry farmers and irrigation water.
And while the juxtaposition of swimming and irrigation water may at first seem far-fetched, the generally accepted food safety standard
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Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev Come to Poultry Trade Compromise
Russia has agreed to end its ban on U.S. poultry imports, presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev announced in a joint press conference yesterday. The announcement resolves a five-month trade dispute over poultry that began when Russia announced it
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A bipartisan group of Senators is urging President Obama to make Russia’s current “blockade” of U.S. poultry products a topic of discussion during his meeting with Russian President Medvedev this week ahead of the G-8 summit in Canada.
In January, Russia banned the import of chicken from countries that use
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Elanco, the same company that jumped feet-first into the controversy surrounding artificial recombinant bovine growth hormones with its 2008 purchase of the Posilac brand from Monsanto, has now moved into the food safety business with Elanco Food Solutions.
The company is going to be competing in that seemingly growing field
Russia is making bogus food safety claims to curtail or eliminate American poultry, pork and beef imports, the two top agricultural leaders in the U.S. Senate charge in a letter to President Obama.
Democrat Blanche Lincoln and Republican Saxby Chambliss, the chair and ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee
Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports.
“We haven’t seen any readiness to meet Russian standards on the part of some of our partners, mainly the companies from the United States,” Putin said. “If our
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
