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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

CHLORINE in water purification has been my focus for the last series of blogs, and I have kept on with this topic because it is pretty important, so bear with me. Chlorine is also used extensively, in some countries, for disinfecting poultry, meat, eggs, and fresh fruit and vegetables. The next series will look at these issues. We live in a chlorinated world. 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

EPA TABLE 1.6 On different water purification methods shows the rate of no undesirable outcomes out of 18 total parameters. They rank: permanganate (Score of 14, high number is best), ozone (11), chloramine (10), ozone/peroxide (9), chlorine or chloramine (5), ozone (3). These parameter rankings do not weight the parameters. NB. Not including any bio methods. http://lnkd.in/d46ur_y 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

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

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

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

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

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