Seems the government, behind our backs, has been looking at ways to bring us chlorinated chicken from the US.
"UK looked at ways to ‘open doors’ to US chlorinated chicken, FoI request shows
Exclusive: Documents released to campaign group 38 Degrees reveal UK officials briefed on possibility of altering food standards"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/23/uk-us-chlorinated-chicken-foi-requestNeedless to say A government spokesperson in response said: “We have consistently said imports of chlorinated chicken remain illegal and there are no plans to change that. We have also been consistently clear that we will never lower our high food standards in trade deals.”
Presumably that was also intended to cover the Australian trade deal made by the previous government, which did.
"Without further action, the Australia deal and subsequent deals will undermine the higher standards that UK farmers are expected to follow, increase the UK’s overseas environmental footprint, increase the supply of meat produced to lower animal welfare standards and, through provisions on regulation, increase the prospect of food standards and food safety being eroded over time.
The Australia-UK agreement is a blueprint for deals that are bad for the environment, animal welfare and human health.
The Australia-UK agreement allows zero-tariff, zero-quota access to the UK market in key agricultural products for Australia – beef and lamb – without imposing any environmental or animal welfare conditions on their production. This gives Australian beef and lamb the UK’s
biggest prize, full and free access to its market, despite much of the meat being produced to lower environmental and animal welfare standards."
https://www.ciwf.org.uk/media/7450288/168678_lessons-learnt-from-australia-trade-deal-core-standards-ciwf-wwf-and-others-march-2022.pdf
