Rep. Lori Trahan urged support for the bipartisan Youth Poisoning Protection Act, which bans consumer sales of sodium nitrite ...

For this reason, they have issued voluntary sodium reduction initiatives for food manufacturers ... "We know that when nitrites combine with the amines in meat, they create nitrosamines, which ...

Tyler’s Law, named in honor of Tyler Schmidt, a 15-year-old boy from Camas, Clark County, who died by ingesting the chemical, bans the sale of sodium nitrite in concentrations over 10%.

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.