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Russia may restrict imports of chilled, frozen North American meat


    MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian food safety watchdog may restrict imports of chilled U.S. and Canadian beef and pork from February 4 and frozen products by February 11 if exporters do not certify them free of the feed additive ractopamine by those dates, a spokesman said on Monday.

    Alexey Alexeyenko, the spokesman for Russia's Veterinary and Phyto-Sanitary Surveillance Service, said the VPSS warned regulators in both countries of tougher measures on ractopamine. Chilled and frozen products were addressed in separate letters, he said.

    (Writing by Melissa Akin; Editing by Lidia Kelly)