Russia barred imports of frozen boneless pork produced by a unit of Tyson Foods Inc. after laboratory tests found Listeria in the meat.

Healthy Farm, one of the leading producers of high quality food products in Russia, has recently invested in the first Meyn-Ishida poultry processing solution in the Ural region.

The groups favor the introduction of a Senate bill that will establish permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) with Russia by repealing the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment.

Russia’s pork output is expected to reach 2.6 million metric tons this year and increase to 3.1 million tons in 2015.

Russia’s output of poultry and its byproducts increased 25 percent to 268,000 metric tons in February compared with a year earlier.

Reuters reports that meat and byproducts’ output grew 5.7 percent in October to 113,000 metric tons compared with a year earlier.

Russia will reduce pork and poultry import quotas after it gains entry to the World Trade Organization, RIA Novosti said, citing Andrei Slepnyov, the country’s deputy economy minister.