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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Helena Horton Environment reporter

Chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef not crucial to UK trade deal, US suggests

Chickens on a UK supermarket shelf
The environment secretary reiterated that the UK would never accept chlorine chicken or hormone beef. Photograph: Alex Segre/Alamy

Chlorine-washed chicken and hormone-fed beef may not be essential for a US-UK trade deal, Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary has indicated.

Speaking to journalists at a press conference in London, Brooke Rollins said the market was moving away from the two controversial methods of production, which are illegal in the UK and the EU.

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