Russia bans some U.S. meat

Published on September 6, 2012; Published on September 6, 2012
Jim Romahn

As Russia counts the days until it is allowed into membership in the World Trade Organization, it hit two more U.S. packing plants with food-safety bans.

Topics :: Russia , U.S. , Waterloo, Iowa

Tyson’s pork plant at Waterloo, Iowa, has been banned on the basis that listeria was detected in frozen boneless pork the Russians imported.

Triumph Foods’ pork plant at St. Charles, Missouri, has been banned because Russia’s food safety agency, Rosselkhoznador, says it detected residues of tetracycline and chlortetracycline.

Russia has issued a number of temporary bans on U.S. pork, beef and poultry plants this year, all of them settled after negotiations between U.S. and Russian government officials.

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