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US Meat ‘Is Poisonous’ Says
Russia And Rejects Imports
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U.S. meat supplies to Russia have been banned.
The Russian Federation and the United States differ in the assessment of the causes
of the situation. Russia claims that the reason for the ban was the presence
of ractopamine drug in US meat. America insists that Russia’s actions were a
response to the adoption of the Magnitsky Act by the Senate and accuses
Russia of violating WTO rules. On December 7, 2012 Russia’s Federal Agency for Agricultural Control, Rosselhohznadzor, banned the imports of meat containing ractopamine. This is a food additive that allows to reduce the content of fat in beef and pork. The drug is added to food so that animals grow the muscle mass instead of fat. According to researchers, ractopamine affects the human cardiovascular system, and in some cases can cause food poisoning. This drug is banned for use in 160 countries, including China and Russia. It is allowed in 24 countries, including Canada and the United States. Codex Alimentarius of the World Health Organization, adopted in July 2012 in Rome by representatives of 186 countries, allows the contents of ractopamine in meat. Formally, Russia does not prohibit the delivery of pork and beef from the United States. It only notified a number of countries, including the US of A, of the need to provide documents saying that animals had not been fed ractopamine – the drug that is banned in Russia. However, the warned countries (in addition to the U.S. the list includes Canada, Brazil and Mexico and excludes 20 countries where the drug is used) do not have the appropriate expertise, because there was no need to have it before. Rosselkhoznadzor promised to introduce a transitional period for those countries, until about the end of January 2013. However, specific implementation mechanisms remain unclear. As for foreign countries, the move of the Russian Agency for Agricultural Control will hit the United States most. Russia is the fourth largest importer of U.S. meat and spends about $500 million a year on it. The Russian market consumes 0.6 percent of all beef and 1.4 percent of pork produced in the United States. More than 200 containers of meat products worth about $20 million are currently on their way to Russia from the United States. more http://english.pravda.ru/business/companies/11-12-2012/123129-russia_usa_meat_imports-0/ |
1 comment:
Good for Russia. Too bad for us. It seems that the US is slowly falling prey to their own little tricks. Now the shoe is on the other foot. But I guess we deserve it, when we do nothing about it.
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