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  As your post pointed out. 
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		| the US is more inclined to simply treat contamination of its meat at the end with a chlorine or similar wash. | 
	
 Why is a chlorinated wash ok for salads? IE includes vegetarians.
Doesn't mean standards in the US are necessarily worse.
Germany has a habit of imposing it's own more expensive standards on the rest of the EU, in order to stop others having an economic advantage. All to do with maintaining the "level-playing field", as with the conditions the EU is still trying to impose on the UK, post-Brexit.
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		| With a view to ensuring the maintenance of the level playing field conditions required for the proper functioning of this paragraph, the provisions set out in
 Annex 4 to this Protocol shall apply.
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