Russia softens ban on processing of frozen poultry

Moscow - In Russia, should the conditions for the poultry meat processing from 1 January 2011, not so much worse, as planned initially.

Thus, a consumer protection service now adopted by the Federal provision, the use of frozen poultry meat only prohibits the production of non-heat-treated foods.

A decision of the Authority in 2008 provided for a total ban on the industrial processing of frozen poultry meat from next year. In terms of children's food was so already beginning 2010. The originally planned tightening of standards would have almost a halt to imports of chicken meat from the U.S. means.

Meat processors appelieren to the Government

In the past week, several major Russian meat processor called on the government to pass up. In a letter to the authorities responsible for agriculture and food industry first deputy prime minister Viktor Zubkov, they pointed out that such restrictions either in the European Union still existed in the United States.

Differences between processors and producers

Then said the chief of the Federal Consumer Protection Service and Office of the Chief sanitary doctor of Russia, Gennady Onishchenko, that the call came from a group of meat processors, who had been dependent on imported raw materials and then torpedo the national policy of safe food supply. According to Onischtschenkos stricter standards would have found support from other major companies in the domestic meat industry, but also of the governors or agricultural departments of several provinces. (AIZ)