Russian watchdog detects over 20 tonnes of U.S. chicken legs with salmonellosis
VLADIVOSTOK. Aug 29 (Interfax) - The Russian consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has detected a batch of 24.3 tonnes of chicken legs from the United States infected with salmonellosis in Vladivostok port.
"Eating such products could lead to large-scale severe food poisoning. The further delivery of the products infected has been stopped," the press office of Rospotrebnadzor's Primorye department said on Thursday.
The fact that chicken was infected with such dangerous infectious disease as salmonellosis was revealed by laboratory tests.
Bacteria dangerous for humans were also found in August in several batches of foreign products coming in Primorye: 24 tonnes of crab sticks from China, 22.5 tonnes of trout from Chile, 11.3 tonnes of beef from Australia and 7.5 tonnes of dried fish from China.
According to the press office, in all these cases the products imported to Russia were infected with E. coli bacteria.