A draft agreement on U.S. poultry supplies...

"The final draft of the document may be completed by the end of the week," Gennady Onishchenko told RIA Novosti, adding that it was now being studied by the U.S. experts.

He noted, however, that this did not mean that the supplies would definitely resume in the near future.

The latest round of the U.S.-Russian poultry talks took place in Moscow on March 1-3.

Russia banned imports of U.S. chlorine-treated poultry as of January 1, citing new sanitary requirements. The United States, which supplied 22% of poultry consumed in Russia last year, says the move would damage the U.S. poultry industry and push prices up for Russian consumers.

The new requirements, which apply to both imports and meat processed in Russia, state that the amount of chlorine in the solution used for the processing of poultry meat should not exceed the level set for drinking water, 0.3-0.5 milligrams per liter. They also state the fluid that separates when defrosting the meat should

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