Baucus Criticizes Russia for Meat Import Ban
Russia should end its unscientific ban on U.S. meat exports, including beef and pork, said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. Russia said in December it plans such a ban, despite the conclusions of international food safety organizations that U.S. beef and pork are safe, Baucus said: "Now that Russia is a member of the WTO, it must play by the rules and base its import standards on sound science."
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The ban, which took effect Feb. 11, blocks meat exports from the U.S. that contain traces of a widely-used ingredient called ractopamine. CODEX, an organization that sets international standards for food safety, has concluded that ractopamine is safe for human consumption at low levels and established maximum residue limits for ractopamine, Baucus said, and the blocked exports comply with those standards.