Russia will block the supply channel of chicken legs from the USA to Kazakhstan

Published 2024년 8월 1일

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On July 24, 2024, Russia imposed restrictions on the import of poultry products from the United States and banned the transit of meat through its territory, impacting US poultry exports to Kazakhstan. This decision was prompted by outbreaks of avian influenza in US states, as noted by the Hong Kong Food Safety Center and Russia's agricultural watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor. The Union of Poultry Farmers of Kazakhstan, which supports the measure, emphasizes the challenges Kazakhstan's poultry industry faces in competing with imported poultry and highlights the country's ambitions to increase domestic production and reduce reliance on imports by 2027.

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On July 24, 2024, Russia introduced restrictions on the import of poultry products from the United States. The transit of meat through Russian territory was also banned. Now chicken from the United States will not be able to be imported into the Republic of Kazakhstan, at least through the Russian Federation, since it was through Russia that American legs, or as they are also called “Bush legs,” ended up on Kazakh shelves. “The Hong Kong Food Safety Center has suspended imports of poultry meat and poultry products, including eggs, from the United States due to outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza in several US states. The decision was made after the US Department of Agriculture announced numerous cases of avian influenza at commercial poultry farms in Minnesota, Iowa and North Carolina,” Rosselkhoznadzor said in a statement. As noted in the Russian department, an official letter has already been sent to Conrad Estrada, regional manager for Europe, Africa, the Middle East ...

Source: Agrovesti