Russia Lifts Pork Ban from U.S. Wisconsin, Canada

(Reuters – Aleksandras Budrys)

Russia said on Friday it would lift a ban on live pigs and raw pork imports from the U.S. state of Wisconsin and Canada's Ontario province from July 18 due to what it said was a "stabilization" of the situation of the H1N1 virus in those places.

The animal and plant health watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said it now applies a ban on imports of live pigs and uncooked pork from only one U.S. state – Florida, as well as the whole of Great Britain and three Japanese prefectures.

Bans will no longer be applied to Canada from July 18. Read more here.