article_snippet: American farmers can also use pesticides that have been banned in the US as a health risk.
article_snippet: n’t want feed lot beef with growth hormones, nor chickens washed with chlorine or food produced with banned pesticides and additives, to name but a few, and I certainly don’t want our farmers undermined.
article_snippet: Wholesome: Jamie Oliver, pictured here for Jamie's Summer Food Rave Up, says Jamie Oliver doesn't want 'chickens washed with chlorine or or food produced with banned pesticides and additives', allowed in the US .
article_snippet: Producers in the US wash chicken carcasses in a chlorine and water solution to kill bugs.
article_snippet: Pesticides: 82 pesticides that are banned in the UK and Europe are allowed on US farms.
article_snippet: These include Atrazine, which was banned here in 2003 because of evidence evidence was contaminating water supplies and can disrupt the human hormone system.
article_snippet: evidence is still used intensively in the US or corn, sugar cane and many other crops.
article_snippet: The US also allows the use of neonicotinoids.