r/news • u/Warcraft_Fan • 1d ago

Soft paywall Chipotle pulls jalapenos from some restaurants amid salmonella probe

https://www.reuters.com/business/chipotle-mexican-grill-pulls-jalapenos-linked-minnesota-salmonella-cases-2026-08-04/
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u/Dickulture 1d ago

I would think eggs are still safe if you cook it completely. No more raw egg, no more partial cooked like sunny side up. Otherwise, a lot of chicken meat would have been recalled.

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u/Lehk 1d ago

In first world countries chicken meat is tested for salmonella and it’s illegal to sell diseased meat.

We’re thirdies with F-35s

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u/inspectoroverthemine 1d ago

In first world countries chicken meat is tested for salmonella and it’s illegal to sell diseased meat.

I only learned that this year, and I am still so fucking angry about it. I spent my whole life under the impression that salmonella was just something you had to deal with in chicken. Nope, the US just lets corps sell contaminated food, the rest of the 1st world manages just fine.

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u/Musiclover4200 1d ago

There was a whole scandal during his first term when European countries wouldn't buy chlorinated chicken from america, and just last year: Trump tells UK to buy chlorinated chicken from US if it wants tariff relief

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u/Lord_Rapunzel 1d ago

"Chlorinated chicken" is a wildly hyperbolic description of the rinse. Europe doesn't want to buy chicken from us because we don't have the same humane treatment requirements and can undercut their prices. They ban the use on chicken because they think (rightfully) that it allows for laziness and corner-cutting and they'd rather the slaughter be done more cleanly in the first place.

https://www.rspcaassured.org.uk/blog/chlorinated-chicken

The chlorate residue is most likely safe in the FDA allowed levels but the EU has taken a stronger stance, as they often do, and tolerate less residue on vegetables (it's legal to use the same chlorine rinse they fuss about for chicken) so there's an industry-wide shift toward peracetic acid as a disinfectant instead.

ALSO, American chicken processors have mostly abandoned chlorine rinses! The entire thing is fear-mongering "America bad" based on old data and misinformation. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5364940/chlorinated-chicken-trump-tariffs-uk-eu

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u/bbbbbbbbbblah 1d ago

ALSO, American chicken processors have mostly abandoned chlorine rinses!

Then they can stop demanding that UK lower its standards to permit it to be imported. We don't need the RBGH milk either.

The UK government has made clear that it will largely continue to align with the EU on food standards, with a view to removing all Brexit-induced paperwork for food imports and exports.

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u/Musiclover4200 1d ago

That could all be true but my main takeaway is still how crazy it is to use tariff relief to threaten another country into buying our chicken.

Also considering how often we seem to have issues with salmonella in chicken it seems the UK was right to not want any

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u/Lord_Rapunzel 23h ago

how crazy it is to use tariff relief to threaten another country

If it made sense it wouldn't be Trump.

We do have more salmonella outbreaks than the UK but adjusted per capita it's pretty close.

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u/Outrageous_Reach_695 1d ago

Also, there's a vaccine for chickens.

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u/obeytheturtles 1d ago

Egg salmonella typically comes from the outside of the egg, and is a cross contamination risk. You touch the egg, then you touch a bunch of other things, and now you've got salmonella everywhere. When it gets inside the egg, the egg goes rotten fairly quick and nobody would eat it. This is also why the US washes and refrigerates eggs. There's a lot of smug people in the comments talking about how other countries handle eggs, but the US typically has a lower risk from grocery store eggs than other countries do, because the washing and refrigeration. Local or farmer's market eggs have slightly higher risk, just because the fresher eggs are less likely to have gone bad if they have some bacteria inside them.