Bacon sales are dropping as consumers avoid products cured with nitrites, a controversial additive linked to cancer. So how ...

Sodium nitrite-related suicides are increasing in the UK, especially among young people, prompting calls for regulation and ...

Oscar Mayer is touting its new hot dog recipe that uses nitrite derived from celery juice instead of artificial sodium nitrite, which is used to preserve the pinkish colors of processed meats and ...

A study published in BMJ Public Health highlights a concerning trend of suicide by poisoning using the common food ...

Nitrates and nitrites give processed meats their characteristic pink color and robust flavor. Although many consumers want to limit consumption of these preservatives because the substances can form ...

NEW ORLEANS – A preservative used to cure bacon is being tested as poison for the nation's estimated 5 million feral hogs. Descendants of both escaped domestic pigs and imported Eurasian boars, the ...

Very high levels of sodium nitrite have been detected in samples of meat sent for analysis as part of investigations into the death of one person in Poland. The National Veterinary Research Institute ...

Plasma nitrite serves as a reservoir of nitric oxide (NO) bioactivity. Because nitrite ingestion is markedly lower in newborns than adults, we hypothesized plasma nitrite levels would be lower in ...

The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI. In conclusion, these data suggest that inhaled nitrite is a potent and selective vasodilator of pulmonary circulation of the ...