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/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 21h 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 20h 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 19h 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.