Original upload date: Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:12:13 GMT
Why does the US have far higher rates of foodborne disease than the UK? Is chlorinated chicken safe? And will it be legalised in the UK as part of a US trade deal?
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Sources:
Annually, 14.7% (48m) of the US population suffer from foodborne illness, versus 1.5% (1m) in the UK:
CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/estimates-overview.html
Food Standards Agency:
https://acss.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/multimedia/pdfs/fds2015.pdf
Chlorine can make foodborne pathogens such as salmonella undetectable:
Study led by University of Southampton, published in mBio, the lead journal for the American Society of Microbiology:
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2018/04/foodborne-illness-study.page
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