U.S. chicken legs blocked in Russia manufacturers or transfer to China and other markets

The resolution on poultry production and circulation, issued by the Consumer Protection and Public Welfare Authority of the Russian Federation on January 1, 2010, was formally in force, which reduced the maximum chlorine content in poultry processing solutions from 200 mg per cubic metre to 50 mg.　　The Russian Federation general Epidemic Prevention Division of the First Division to this explanation, in high concentrations, chlorine in food deposition and formation of harmful synthetic substances, this is the Russian government to make this decision is an important reason. In fact, the new food hygiene standard, which was passed in 2008, was supposed to come into effect on January 1, 2009, but the Russian government took into account the need for some "preparation time" for poultry meat producers in the country, thus delaying the effective time until January 1, 2010. Russian Meat Association executive committee Chairman Yushen recently said that most of Russia's relevant enterprises have been in the "deadline" before the arrival of the "water cooling technology" to "air cooling technology" equipment updates, the proportion of domestic poultry meat produced by Russian enterprises, which is made of "no chlorine-containing poultry", has increased from 60% in 2008 to the current 90.　　%。 Although Russia's domestic enterprises to produce chicken has reached the new food safety standards, but the Russian chicken market has been selling the "Bush Chicken leg" is far from this standard. "Bush Chicken Leg" is a nickname for Russian citizens to import chicken from the United States. In the late Soviet reform, the country's economic situation deteriorated and food supplies were often scarce. To solve the problem, the then Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. President Bush signed a commercial agreement to import chicken, the U.S. frozen chicken leg as food aid began to continue to enter the Russian market. As soon as American chicken legs were placed at the Moscow counter, people scrambled to line up. Because it is found that these across American chicken legs are not only cheaper than local chicken legs, but also more fat than the meat of the Soviet-era thin chicken.　　"Bush chicken Leg" hence the name, which was a tribute to the old Bush. But over time, the Russians found "Bush chicken leg" quality problems and many, asked the United States to provide the content of chicken preservatives, chicken feed containing antibiotics, and other information, but the United States has been "playing deep", so in recent years Gesanchaiwu on the chicken quality problems with the United States "trade war." However, after years of painstaking, the United States has become Russia's largest chicken importer.　　According to the Russian Meat Association statistics show that in 2009, the U.S. chicken occupies 22% of the domestic poultry market share, Russia 2009 annual imports of 79% of the chicken from the United States. It is also the position of the eldest, in the Russian enterprises to make full use of a year's "grace period" timely implementation of equipment replacement, the United States companies appear to the new food hygiene standards hold a lucky mentality. At the end of August 2008, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian government would remove the names of 19 U.S. companies from its list of chicken suppliers and warn 29 companies because of the very unsatisfactory results of the tests on the quality of U.S. chicken. Putin said: "This does not mean that the Russian government to prohibit the U.S. chicken into the domestic market, we are to prohibit those for a whole yearto ignore the views of the Russian enterprises. We should protect the domestic market and our own consumers, and many countries, including the United States, do so. "But the" cautionary tale "of the 19 American companies did not attract the attention of other chicken producers in the United States.　　Some American experts even believe that, despite the rapid development of Russian agriculture in recent years, but the domestic meat completely replace imports still need a few years, so there is no real confidence in the United States chicken said "no". Until the last few days of 2009, American chicken producers still thought Russia would not impose import restrictions on all the chicken that was treated with chlorination. But January 1, 2010, Russia officially "did not meet the Russian food safety standards" as the basis of the ban on imports of American chicken production. Albert Davrejev, director of the U.S. National Egg Export Association in Russia, said that 2010, the United States should supply 600,000 tons of chicken, accounted for 77% of the total chicken imports, and now all of the U.S. chicken because of the "chlorine content limit bottlenecks" and can not enter the Russian territory.　　For this reason, U.S.-related companies have consciously promoted American chicken in markets such as China and Ukraine. In the new Russian food safety standards, the U.S. Department of Agriculture officials recently stressed that poultry disinfection and antibacterial treatment in the United States has been used for more than 25 years, chlorination disinfection treatment is to eliminate the pathogen of chicken, and help protect consumers. But the Russian media still revealed that the United States Government has decided to send a delegation to Russia on January 17, and Russia on the "chicken problem" for serious consultations. For the Russian side of this approach, some Americans believe that this is the U.S. chicken as a "political prisoner."　　Some Americans had advocated suing Russia under the WTO framework, but the Russians smiled and said, "Sorry, Russia is not yet a member of the WTO ..." Moscow, January 16 (Xinhua)