[DiffEq]

BUT....what if it isn't clean? One worker can infect a whole host of chickens and there is no mitigation that will stop it before it is consumed except for the hope that it is cooked properly. Besides, the "chemical washing" is not chlorine anymore it is just vinegar (What many people put on chicken to eat anyway). So ideally you would have clean farms, clean processing and clean storage and then the consumer would properly cook it...but if one of these does not happen ideally, another cheap way to prevent killing people is to use vinegar to reduce possible sickness even further. The only reason why I can think that this would be apposed is to protect poultry producers in Europe.

[ubercow13]

So why aren't the Americans showing us how clean their farms are, instead of going on about this vinegar strawman?

[DiffEq]

How is it a strawman? Chemical washing is a sensible thing to do.

You know I live in the mid-west and I have seen some iffy chicken farms and some really clean ones. I have also been to Europe (mainland, Britain, and Ireland) and have seen the same. The thing is you simply can not inspect everything all the time and guarantee the entire supply chain will be free from issues...but you can put mitigations in place that can help.

[KozmoNau7]

Acetic acid and peracetic acid are completely different things.

Peracetic acid has the following health warnings:

GHS Signal word Danger

GHS hazard statements H226, H242, H302, H312, H314, H332, H400

GHS precautionary statements P210, P220, P233, P234, P240, P241, P242, P243, P260, P261, P264, P270, P271, P273, P280, P301+312, P301+330+331, P302+352, P303+361+353, P304+312, P304+340, P305+351+338, P310, P312, P321

[bluGill]

Because the media who shows people things gains far more from manufacturing crisis and various trade wars then telling the other side of the story.