>> Be many of us eat salad, should we stop as it's evidence of poor standards?
I think comparing salad and chicken is apples/pears territory.
Salad, unless produced in places like Thanet Earth*, is out in the open with insects, bird poop and soil borne pathogens, a potential risk that cannot be mitigated by better husbandry.
By comparison American chicken is farmed in indoor sheds at population densities and with practices long banned in Europe. Slaughtering and butchering practices are also slack in ways that would not be tolerated in EU. Chlorine washing mitigates for those poor practices. It's not 100% though, US rates of Salmonella, E-Coli etc are way ahead of UK.
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanet_Earth
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