Colorado lawmakers heard powerful testimony Tuesday about a bill aimed at saving lives. The measure would regulate a food preservative that is lethal in its concentrated form. The preservative, sodium ...

The reversal stems from a February Washington Supreme Court decision in a similar case over sodium nitrite purchases from ...

Canned sausages have been a mainstay food for generations. However, like all other canned foods, you need to be careful with ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Lawmakers are discussing a bill that would restrict the sale of highly concentrated sodium nitrite, a chemical linked to suicide attempts. The proposed legislation, House Bill 1209, ...

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 ...

New legislation in Albany would ban retailers like Amazon from selling sodium nitrite, a common meat preservative linked to youth suicides across the country. “It’s basically like the suicide poison ...

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 ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington state legislators are considering a bill that would prohibit the sale of highly concentrated sodium nitrite, a chemical compound that has been linked to multiple youth ...

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a recall on April 29 for nearly 19,000 pounds of ready-to-eat sausage and sliced meat and poultry products produced by Smith Packing in Utica, ...

Imitation meat is often marketed as a healthy alternative to real meat, but is it? These particular imitation meats will ...

Uncured meat has become a go-to for those interested in eating healthier, but the truth is that many of them are still ...

Greater daily exposure to nitrites in food and water may increase the risk for type 2 diabetes, French researchers reported. Compared with those in the lowest tertile of total nitrite exposure (mean 3 ...