Russia softens stance on deep frozen poultry meat

摘要

Russia will impose only a partial ban on deep-frozen poultry meat rather than a total one, domestic media reported last weekend. The business daily Vedomosti quoted Gennady Onishchenko, head of consumer protection agency Rospotrebnadzor, as saying that frozen meat could not be used to produce baby food, some diet foods and delicacies. Earlier this month he told Reuters that Russia would ban all sales and processing of deep-frozen poultry meat, both domestic and imported, beginning Jan. 1 (see FCN Nov. 5, Page 9).