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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Lisa O'Carroll and Helena Horton

No chlorinated chicken or hormone-fed beef in future trade deals, Sunak vows

Chickens gather around a feeder at a farm in Osage, Iowa.
Chickens at a farm in Osage, Iowa. After slaughter, the chickens are rinsed with an antimicrobial chlorine wash to protect consumers from food-borne diseases. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty

Rishi Sunak has vowed to take chlorinated chicken and hormone-fed beef off British tables in future trade deals, promising to put UK farming at the heart of government trade policy.

“There will be no chlorine-washed chicken and no hormone-treated beef on the UK market. Not now, not ever,” he will tell farmers in a letter unveiling a new government policy to improve British food security.

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