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

US agriculture secretary says country is moving away from both methods of production, illegal in UK and EU

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.