Russia could reopen its market to U.S. poultry, worth $800 million in 2008, if both countries can build on "stunning" progress during talks in Moscow this month, Russia's lead negotiator in the dispute said on Monday.
"American chicken has a chance of returning to the Russian market. Conditions will be mutually satisfactory," Gennady Onishchenko, head of Russian consumer protection watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, told a news conference.
Russia, the biggest export market for U.S. poultry, banned supplies from Jan. 19 after saying a chlorine wash used routinely in U.S. processing plants was in violation of its food safety standards. Washington says its poultry is safe.
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