Is Bell & Evans Chicken Washed in Chlorine?
Is Bell & Evans chicken washed in chlorine? Not in a chlorinated water bath, according to the company.
Its product page says “100% Air Chilled with no chlorinated water bath.” That answers the chilling question. Its facility tour separately shows that, after evisceration, birds are reviewed and rinsed in an organic antimicrobial to reduce bacteria before chilling. The tour does not name that antimicrobial. Air chilling then uses cold air instead of a chlorinated water bath. The supported answer is specific: no chlorinated chilling bath, plus an organic antimicrobial rinse whose identity is not disclosed in the reviewed sources. An air-chilled label does not prove that no antimicrobial touched the bird.
How air chilling differs from a chicken wash
The 2022 facility article describes cleaning solutions delivered without human or product contact. That facility-cleaning statement does not identify the bird rinse or establish residues or health outcomes.
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Does Bell & Evans use an antimicrobial rinse?
Its facility tour describes an organic antimicrobial rinse before chilling, without naming it.
Does air chilled mean no antimicrobial treatment?
No. It describes cooling, not every earlier processing step.