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Do 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 pri
by d1ss0nanz 1y ago
Do 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.