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# Russia Bans US Poultry Over Chlorine
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/russia_bans_us_poultry_over_chlorine_1801101136/
- Published: 2010-01-18T23:34:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T18:45:47.000Z
- Description: Moscow banned future U.S. poultry imports over the chlorine antimicrobial washes common in American processing, joining the European Union. The USDA defended the practice. Poultry made up nearly half of the $1.8 billion in U.S. agricultural exports to Russia in 2008.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Alerts, Shopping, #vivvo-import

Posted by: [Dr. Mercola](http://blogs.mercola.com/members/Dr.-Mercola/default.aspx?ref=foodconsumer.org) 

January 18 2010 

With as much as 30,000 tons of American poultry in the pipeline to Russia, the government in Moscow imposed a ban on future U.S. poultry imports. Russia joins the European Union in prohibiting the use of chlorine as an anti-microbial treatment in poultry production, which is commonly used in the United States.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture defended the use of chlorine by the American poultry industry.

American poultry exports to Russia are the biggest component of U.S. agricultural exports to the former Soviet Union. Russia has grown to become American's tenth largest agricultural export market, for a total of $1.8 billion in 2008\. Poultry was almost half of that amount.

  
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[**Food Safety News January 7, 2010**](http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/01/russia-bans-us-poultry-over-chlorine/?ref=foodconsumer.org)