The press service of the Russian Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance recently reported that Russia imposed new restrictive measures on imports of meat products produced by some enterprises of France, Argentina, Spain, Canada and China, because of the detection of prohibited and harmful substances in animal products supplied to Russia from these countries. The banned imports include poultry meat and pork from Spain, pork fat from France as well as pork from Canada, beef from Argentina and rabbit meat from China.
In January-June 2009 meat imports to Russia have been reduced to 25.5% compared to the same period last year, when they amounted to 38%, according to the Russian Federal State Statistics Service.
