Would you eat chicken washed in chlorine?

I’D PREFER to eat chicken washed in chlorine rather than poultry contaminated with salmonella, campylobacter or other nasties.

R. BENNETT, Cheltenham, glos. IF IT’S no to chicken washed in chlorine, surely we need to stop putting chlorine in our drinking water, too. ROY GREEN, Worcs. FOOD standards in the U.S. are of a high level and strictly regulated to stop contamination. My concern about chlorinated chicken is that cheap U.S. imports would damage our food industry and British farmers. And what about processed chickens from Brazil and Thailand, found in cheap frozen products and fast food? Do these countries have the same levels of hygiene and regulations for farmers rearing chickens? Our own food production has fallen due to cheap imports from Europe over which we have no control because of free trade. Switching to a trade agreement with the U.S. would help us to regulate what we import. JEREMY MEPPEN-WALTER, North Cave, e. Yorks. WHY the furore over a weak chlorine solution used in the U.S. to wash chicken? This row has been whipped up by Remoaners and anti-Trump/ anti-U.S. factions. Have they stopped to think what they are ingesting in any swimming pool? Chlorine — used to curtail infections from all the unwashed bodies. ANDREW HARRISON, Nantwich, Cheshire. TRADE Secretary Liam Fox praises the prospect of a post-Brexit trade deal with the U.S. I see nothing to applaud at the thought of eating chlorinated chicken, hormone injected beef and genetically modified cereals. VALERIE CREWS, Beckenham, Kent. THE point is not that it’s bathed in chlorine, but that we have to import chicken from the U.S. ALAN JARRETT, Rochester, Kent.