Below are some of the worst bacon brands for your health, based on nutritional content and ingredient quality. Oscar Mayer is one of the most recognized bacon brands in the U.S., but its original ...

Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3.3 mg/day), those exposed to the most nitrites -- a mean 8.6 mg/day -- had a 27% greater risk for type 2 diabetes (HR 1. ...

The bill would ban the sale of high-potency sodium nitrite — more than 10% pure — to Coloradans, except approved commercial businesses, in a bid to slow deaths in a state that regularly has ...

2016 – Consumers posted on a sodium nitrite vendor’s website that the product was lethal. “[This] stuff will kill you. Amazon needs to get this off this search NOW!” wrote the one consumer.

The preservative, sodium nitrite, is primarily used - in a diluted form - by meat processing companies. But in recent years, it has also been increasingly used - in its pure form - as a suicide agent.

The use of sodium nitrite in suicide is increasing thanks to online boosters, they said, but testing for it is still not universal. Brown said he’s spoken with grieving parents and families from ...

Sodium Nitrite’s Dark Side. Sodium nitrite and its cousin sodium nitrate, which serves the same function, don’t have the best reputation. Many animal studies link high doses of nitrites with a ...

At issue is sodium nitrite. It’s a common meat preservative when used at a strength of 6%. Court records show between 2018 and 2022 several young people bought the chemical compound at 99% ...

John KevinA medical examiner report revealed this week that Empire actress Lindsey Pearlman died by suicide in February from sodium nitrite poisoning—and she’s not alone. Her death is part of ...

Among patients who had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, intravenous sodium nitrite given by paramedics during resuscitation did not significantly improve their chances of being admitted to or ...