“We have reached an agreement that will allow the United States to begin exporting our poultry products to Russia once again,” Obama said, reports Bloomberg. Russia essentially barred U.S. chicken in January by slashing the allowable amount of chlorine U.S. producers can use to disinfect the meat.
Russian’s safety watchdog organization, Rosselkoznadzor, announced that U.S. processors are ready to use substances other than chlorine to disinfect chicken meat in order to comply with Russian regulations.