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Originally Posted by mapuc

I'm in a discussion with some friends about American food regulations versus Danish


Another one replied-Why is it allowed to pour chlorine over the chickens and use lots of growth hormones in pork and beef ?





Markus

Well since most rich American kids grow up swimming in Chlorinated pools and drinking god-knows-what from the treated reservoirs, we are Immune! and besides were not Commie-bastards:

2010: Getting another American chicken into Russia just got harder.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin weighed into the Russian ban on U.S. chicken imports.
“We haven’t seen any readiness to meet Russian standards on the part of some of our partners, mainly the companies from the United States,” Putin said. “If our foreign suppliers are unable or reluctant to meet our security requirements, we will use other sources.”
The Russians banned chickens from countries using chlorine in poultry processing beginning Jan. 1 2010. Putin made the Americans the odd man out saying that Russia was merely joining the European Union in banning, for food safety reasons, chickens from chlorine-using counties.
“One shouldn’t look for political background in this case, God forbid,” said Russia’s former President and one-time KGB agent. “No political background here!”
Putin attended a meeting on Russian poultry production where it was announced that the country would import a total of 780,000 metric tons of poultry in 2010, and then continue to reduce imports in the years ahead.
The American quota would be 600,000 metric tons for 2010, down 20 percent from 2009. Since the ban, however, prices for American poultry in Russia are up about 20 percent. Putin wants Russia to be poultry self-sufficient by 2015.

EDIT UPDATE: FEB 2016; As usual Putin's (5 year plan) has failed...miserably; but after Chernobyl what's the difference! a little chlorination with the radiation

RUSSIA - The weak ruble, restrictive trade policies, and competitive domestic products in 2016 could halve Russia's poultry imports to 130,000 Metric Tons in 2016, according to the latest report from the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA-FAS).

That's still a whole lotta' poultry goin' on! Methinks it's a political problem: http://www.globalmeatnews.com/Safety-Legislation/Russia-proposes-endless-ban-on-US-EU-meat-imports