Re: 20 year old tech...
The issue isn't the chlorine wash but that it needs washing AT ALL due to wildly unsanitary animal husbandry with amazingly high levels of both camplyobacter and salmonella along with slaughterhouse conditions that allow fecal matter to come into contact with meat (yes really), so the wash pushes e.coli into deeper crevices than it would otherwise be in
The rates of chicken-related food posoning on each side of the atlantic underscore differences in food standards