In Food Preparation Restaurants and meat and poultry processing plants rely on chlorine bleach and other chlorine-based products to kill bacteria such as salmonella, E. coli, and campylobacter on food preparation surfaces and during food processing. Chlorine is so important in poultry processing that the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires a chlorine rinse for all eviscerating equipment after use on each bird in the slaughter line. In fact, no proven economical alternative to chlorine disinfection exists for use in meat and poultry processing facilities. Many other public places rely on chlorine. Hotels, nursing homes, schools, summer camps, resorts, spas and cruise ships all depend on chlorine to provide safe drinking water, effective cleaning and disinfection and sanitary food preparation.
Chlorine helps make possible many of the miracles of modern medicine.
In Medical Equipment Chlorine is essential to a wide variety of medical equipment. Every day, millions of police officers and firefighters put their lives on the line. Protecting the public can be dangerous business, but thanks to chlorine, life on the job is a lot safer. The student secured the audience's attention. The student did not secure the audience's attention.