>> I think we did this in another thread, isn't salad vegetables in the eu washed
>> in the same or very similar washing process?
I think that is right. Salad leaves, or at least some of them, are rinsed in a chlorine solution to kill off any bacterial contamination from insects, birds etc while the plant is in the ground.
Chlorine itself though is not the issue. Any residue is well below harm level.
The problem is that chlorine washing is seen in Europe as a countermeasure for poor farming practice (gross overcrowding etc) and ill managed abattoirs and risk that meat has high concentrations of e-coli and other nasties.
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