Dive Summary:

• Russia has extended its ban on U.S. meat products to not only include pork and beef, but now turkey as well.
• The ban, hotly contested by the U.S., is concerning the use of ractopamine to help grow leaner and meatier livestock.
• The U.S. has been working hard to get Russia to drop the ban, including a plea to the WTO, however Russian officials have remained steadfast.

From  the article:

That was after repeated warnings following continual breaches of Russian rules banning ractopamine’s presence in food and feedstuffs. All restrictions take effect from February 11.

Yevgeny Nepoklonov, deputy head of the Rosselkhoznadzor, wrote to Ronald Jones, assistant administrator of
the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture, expressing deep regret about the
situation.

“The situation is aggravated by the fact that the US continues exportation of meat containing ractopamine
residues, which are detected during laboratory monitoring of the imported product safety,” wrote the
Rosselkhoznadzor in a statement.