Baby carrot

My friend emailed this to me:

The following is information from a farmer who grows
and packages Carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc.

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small
plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed
carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and
shapes them into cocktail carrots. most people probably
know this already.

What you may not know and should know is the following:
once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots
they are dipped in a solution of water and chlorine in order
to preserve them (this is the same chlorine used your
pool) since they do not have their skin or natural
protective covering, they give them a higher dose of chlorine.

You will notice that once you keep these carrots in
your refrigerator for a few days, a white covering
will form
on the carrots, this is the chlorine
which resurfaces. At what cost do we put our health at
risk to have esthetically pleasing vegetables
which are practically plastic?

We do hope that this information can be passed on to
as many people as possible in the hopes of informing them
where these carrots come from and how they are
processed. Chlorine is a very well known carcinogen.

Please let us make this information available to as
many people as possible.