MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator...

Analysts say the outlook is positive as the Americans can easily change their technology to suit the new food safety regulations adopted in Russia. Meanwhile, poultry suppliers are using the situation to raise prices.

On January 1, 2010, the Russian consumer authority Rospotrebnadzor banned chicken imports from the Untied States because the chlorine solution used in meat processing exceeds the new Russian norm, 0.5 milligram per liter of water, which came into force this year.

Russian health officials declared the chlorine bath that American companies use to disinfect chickens after slaughter unsafe, and banned the procedure in 2008.

Similar regulations have long been applied in the European Union, and the Russian government says it had informed suppliers about the change in advance and that the bulk of Russian suppliers have adjusted their technology.

Unlike in the European Union, American chicken meat is washed with a 20-50 mg/L chlorine solution. The

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