Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - daily news Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailWaitrose has vowed to shun chlorinated chicken and hormone-pumped beef if the products are part of a Brexit trade deal with the US. Boss James Bailey wrote in the store’s Weekend magazine: “We promise we will never sell any Waitrose product that does not meet our own high standards.”A Which? poll found 86% of consumers fear a weakening of standards could lead to the import of products now banned here. US chicken reared in insanitary conditions is washed in chlorine – and red meat is injected with hormones. A Department for International Trade official said chlorinated chicken would not be allowed into Britain.

Source: Daily Mirror June 24, 2020 22:59 UTC