The United States will resume poultry exports to Russia, an announcement published on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) website on Friday said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his U.S. counterpart Barrack Obama announced at a joint press conference on Thursday that Moscow and Washington have agreed to remove obstacles to U.S. exports to Russia.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Thomas Vilsack and State Trade Representative Ron Kirk later released a statement saying the United States and Russia had reached an agreement on permitting the resumption of U.S. poultry products to Russia.
"Once the Agreement is signed, U.S. producers will be able to resume shipments of poultry to Russia. Under the agreement, the United States will publish information on the USDA website about which disinfectants/pathogen reductions treatments are known to be approved by Russia for use on processing poultry and on food generally," the statement said.
"The United States will provide information to Russia on the solutions that companies use on poultry shipped to Russia," the statement said. In addition, the United States will give Russia an updated list of poultry processing facilities authorized to ship poultry to Russia.
MOSCOW, June 25 (RIA Novosti)
