Russia last week banned chicken imports from the U.S. At issue is the chlorine bath American producers use to disinfect slaughtered poultry. Of the $729.5 million in chicken sent from the U.S. to Russia from January through November 2009, more than $512 million worth moved through either Mobile ($262.6 million) or Pascagoula ($251.6 million.) Not mention in the Mobile Press Register is the Port of Pensacola, where Pate Stevedore has a warehouse lease for frozen chickens. Pate’s contract was extended and expanded in Jan. 2009 by the old city council before it left office.
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