August 31, 2012
Russia's Rosselhoznadzor will impose stringent laboratory control mechanisms for meat imports from US firms, including Tyson Foods and Triumph Foods.
"Laboratory studies on a shipment of pork come from the US have identified listeria. The pork was produced by Tyson Fresh Meats. In another analysis, samples of pork produced by Triumph Foods, were found to contain tetracycline and chlortetracycline, which are prohibited in the Customs Union. The total concentration of the antibiotics was more than 10 milligram per kilogramme," said the head of Rosselkhoznadzor, Sergey Dankvert.
Tyson Foods will be further subject to special supervision because of the traces of ractopamine identified in the products from three of its subsidiaries. In particular during the last monitoring, ractopamine was found in shipments of products from the enterprises N 244W (Tyson Fresh Meats), N 244I (Tyson Fresh Meats), N 17D (John Morrell), N 31 965 (Triumph Foods), N 320M (Farmland Foods), N 244M (Tyson Fresh Meats); in several pork, pork cheeks and pork hearts, produced by the enterprise N 717 (Farmland Foods), and in quantities of pork and pork cheeks, produced by the enterprise N 18079 (Smithfield Packing Inc).
The US condones the use of the feed additive ractopamine, in line with norms set by the Codex Alimentarius, the food standard under WTO and FAO custodianship.
