[mschuster91]

> Many companies had used benzoates to hide poor sanitation and low-quality tomatoes. Ketchup was often made from leftover tomato trimmings that were stored poorly and then bottled with a heavy dose of benzoate, which also covered up factories’ shoddy sanitization practices that would otherwise breed mold and bacteria.

This sounds suspiciously similar to the US practice of washing poultry meat with chlorine and eggs with water (which massively reduces its shelf life).

[deaddodo]

> This sounds suspiciously similar to the US practice of washing poultry meat with chlorine

You mean the exact same thing Europeans do with leafy greens?

But one is a target of economic protectionism and the other isn't, so it must be scary in that specific case.

> eggs with water (which massively reduces its shelf life).

Ok, and?