They’re found in fruit, veg and cured meat, but why is it that we are warned against eating some foods with nitrates and nitrites in, but we’re told to fill our fridges with others?

This has led to strict regulations of nitrate and nitrite levels in food and drinking water. Kenneth McColl (Glasgow University) described the potential harmful effects of nitrate-derived gastric NO.

The British Meat Processors Association said nitrites are used in curing meats to help preserve them and add flavour and they are authorised additives. They said the European Food Safety Authority ...

Those chemicals are called nitrites and nitrates — and they are ... and are (obviously, because NZ food regulations aren’t going anywhere) still safe to eat. Every cut of meat going into ...

A Colorado father, driven by grief, is pushing to make Colorado among the first states in the country to regulate the sale of sodium nitrite. The preservative, used to cure meat, is deadly in its ...