Europe deplores America's 'chlorinated chicken.' How safe is our poultry?

  • This is an odd passage:

      "The vast majority of chicken processed in the United States is not chilled in chlorine and hasn't been for quite a few years [...] so that's not the issue."
      Less than 5% of poultry processing facilities still use chlorine in rinses and sprays, [...] Those that still do use a highly diluted solution at concentrations deemed safe.
    
    The author should survey a few Europeans to check if they'd be happy to eat chlorinated chicken 5% of the time and 'at concentrations deemed safe'. Also the author should let me place a wager on the outcome.

  • Do I understand that correctly: in the US the approach is to mitigate the impact of eating poultry that was sick during it's lifetime, while the EU tries to prioritize preventing the animals becoming sick?