Government ready to open British markets to chlorinated chicken for US tradedeal

Prior legislation to protect consumers has reliably been fought back by the relevant industry groups, even when the preservatives were knowingly toxic - for example us companies we using formaldehyde as a preservative for decades and beat back any attempt to disallow it.

Needless to say this track record has meant the rest of the world doesn't really trust the quality controls or management of the US ag industry.

So now we can look at to today's chlorinated chicken. US industry claims that they perform a chlorine wash of the chickens they produce to remove microbes to make it safer. The obvious response from other countries is "we don't need to do this, and your industry has a bad track record, so we think your chlorine wash is an attempt to cover up poor sanitation in your facilities".

Honestly there are other US ag processes that I think are much worse than this - chlorinated chicken seems to be a case of something that taken in isolation wouldn't be strictly be terrible, but the surrounding context makes it suspicious.