Brexit: The Hidden Danger of Chlorinated Chicken. With Stephen Fry

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?

Voiced by Stephen Fry

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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/e…
Food Standards Agency:
https://acss.food.gov.uk/sites/defaul…

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/20…

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