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Re: 2019?

@mr-slappy

"Um, no, it very much hasn't."

Yes it has-

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-47440562

in fact in 2005 the European Food Safety Authority said that "exposure to chlorite residues arising from treated poultry carcasses would be of no safety concern". Chlorine-rinsed bagged salads are common in the UK and other countries in the EU.

Amusingly we both cite the same article. That itself links to the report from the food standards agency which concludes no problem too. Also-

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/56eddde762cd9413e151ac92/t/59747741bf629a8e3d01a494/1500804930480/Chlorinated+Chicken.pdf

The average adult woman would have to regularly eat more than two and a half chlorinated chickens a day before suffering any noticeable health effects.13 The typical man would have to eat nearly three whole birds each day. That is before “the expected decreases in the levels of these [chlorite] residues after processing, including cooking”, according to the European Commission.

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