Month: September 2022

COLLISION OF CULTURES. "The EU requires high standards of cleanliness at all stages of poultry production, while the US utilizes chlorinated solution as a decontaminant at the end of the production process." http://www1.american.edu/ted/chicken.htm View in LinkedIn

CULTURE CRUNCH. "The EU considers this decontamination process to be a poor standard of sanitary measure. The US strongly believes that the use of anti-microbial treatments are a safe and effective way to reduce pathogens and food borne diseases that can cause serious health problems." http://www1.american.edu/ted/chicken.htm View in LinkedIn

TIT FOR TAT. "The United States retaliated against the EU poultry ban on April 30, 1997 by delisting European poultry producers. This action prohibits the importation of any poultry or poultry product from the EU into the US. The EU contests the US action because the delisting occurred without appropriate evaluation inspections." http://www1.american.edu/ted/chicken.htm View in LinkedIn

STIFLED DEBATE ABOUT CHICKEN CHLORINATION. "Until 2008, the European Union also banned chlorinated poultry. Greenpeace condemned the procedural maneuver that removed public debate on the issue." While procedural secrecy is hotly debated today, with closed door industry meetings dominating, the ban is still in force. http://lnkd.in/dF6xJxQ View in LinkedIn

CHLORINE PLUS ORGANIC MATERIALS leads to hundreds of very toxic chlorination byproducts. The debate about chicken chlorination is threefold. Good practices. The safety and acceptability of chlorine in food. And toxic chlorine byproducts. View in LinkedIn

THE LITERATURE IS THIN in the subject of chicken carcass chlorine byproducts. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. This summary of the literature is industry biased. http://lnkd.in/dVnrNZE View in LinkedIn

POSTER CHILD. "The chlorinated chicken became a poster child of consumer campaign groups against the TTIP and raised suspicion of the European public against the TTIP. Clorinated poultry is a top priority of the United States trade administration and former Commissioner Verheugen already had indicated concessions in the TEC talk rounds which he could not politically enact." http://acta.ffii.org/?p=2029 View in LinkedIn

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY. "The EU has invoked the precautionary principle to ban the import of US hormone-treated beef. Other areas of concern are chlorine-washed chicken, cherries, molluscan shellfish, tallow, raw milk and genetically modified/engineered crops." http://acta.ffii.org/?p=2029 View in LinkedIn

SLOPPY PRACTICES. "Since 1996, US chickens cannot be sold in the EU because of a European ban on ... dipping carcasses in baths of chlorine or similar solutions to disinfect them. The EU says this method is too radical and not necessary if, throughout the production chain, bacteria are not allowed develop. "We feel the treatment opens the door to becoming sloppy during production," http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-203477048.html View in LinkedIn

GOOD FARMING PRACTICES. "The approach to food safety in the European Union, producing natural products with high hygiene standards throughout the entire process, rather than a chemical treatment at the end of the process, is deeply anchored in our European food culture and therefore we strongly support it." http://www.naturalnews.com/046175_chlorine_chicken_trade_deal_european_union.html%23 View in LinkedIn