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Europe deplores America's 'chlorinated chicken.' How safe is our poultry?
- d1ss0nanz 1y agoDo I understand that correctly: in the US the approach is to mitigate the impact of eating poultry that was sick during it's lifetime, while the EU tries to prioritize preventing the animals becoming sick?
- rsynnott 1y agoThe other issue, AIUI, is that it is not entirely to what extent chlorine washing and other external treatments actually reduce bacterial contamination, vs merely _messing with tests for_ bacterial contamination (eg https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.00540-18 https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mbio.00540-18 ) Arguably the US industry is suffering from Goodhart’s Law; if rather than taking a rules-based approach to production you focus on a post-production metric, you may not get quite what you were expecting.
- thomassmith65 1y agoThis is an odd passage: "The vast majority of chicken processed in the United States is not chilled in chlorine and hasn't been for quite a few years [...] so that's not the issue." Less than 5% of poultry processing facilities still use chlorine in rinses and sprays, [...] Those that still do use a highly diluted solution at concentrations deemed safe. The author should survey a few Europeans to check if they'd be happy to eat chlorinated chicken 5% of the time and 'at concentrations deemed safe'. Also the author should let me place a wager on the outcome.