Putin:19 US poultry producers barred from Russia

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Vladimir Putin says 19 U.S. poultry producers will be barred from exporting their products to Russia.

The former president of Russia and now the country's prime minister says the move has nothing to do with tension over the recent war in Georgia and was purely economic.

He told CNN in an interview Thursday that the unnamed American producers had ignored warnings from Russian inspectors who examined poultry companies last year. He said another 29 producers would receive warnings.

Russia is an important market for American poultry producers.
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